When it comes to losing Fat, don’t believe everything you hear. There are many myths out there that sabotage all your efforts. Just take a look at the Biggest Diet Myths:
* There are some diets that can help you lose fat from specific parts of the body:No diet or dietary supplement can cause local fat reduction. Look at it this way: When you put on the Fat, do have any choice about where it will be stored? No! Your body gets to decide if it will go on the thighs, arms or legs, according to its genetic predisposition. The same thing happens when you lose Fat. Nobody knows which part of the body will slim down first. The best thing you can do is to lower your caloric intake, which will cause overall Fat loss.
* The protein diet is the best for slimming down: Any diet that promotes a greater intake of a specific ingredient at the expense of all the others can be dangerous. It simply disrupts the biochemical balance and doesn’t supply the body with all the nutrients it needs. Also eliminating carbohydrates can reduce the serotonin levels and cause depression, resulting in a strong desire to “cheer up” by eating sweets, especially chocolate.Studies have shown that these kind of diets, work only in the short run. People you followed this diet for a year, didn’t show a greater Fat loss than people who followed other types of diet. Any difference tends to even out over time.
* If the scale ‘gets stuck’, you should reduce calories even more:When the scale gets stuck, it means that your metabolism has slowed down a bit. If you reduce the caloric intake even more your body will think that it’s starving and will attempt to conserve energy. The solution will be a slight increase in calories (about 10%) and in physical activity.
* It doesn’t matter if you eat more at night than in the morning:It does. As the day progresses, we need less and less energy, because we limit our physical activity. If we eat large quantities of food at night, we won’t be able to burn these extra calories and they will get accumulated as fat.
* You need to eat many small meals per day:And now for the biggest myth of all. Even though, spreading your caloric intake throughout the day sounds good in theory, it doesn’t work! The reason is simple: most people eat larger quantities of food than they realise. It’s much more difficult to monitor your caloric intake, if you eat many meals or snacks. There is the widespread notion that eating only 2-3 meals will slow down your metabolism, but according to latest studies this is not true. Eating many times per day does cause a metabolic boost of a whooping….17 calories. Yes, that’s all. If you want to lose Fat, you need to fast for at least some hours daily. This will force your body to use its fat deposits for energy. If you remain constantly on the “fed state”, your insulin levels will remain high. Insulin is a hormone responsible for the storage of fat. To succeed you must increase the Glucagon that causes fat burning. And the only way to do that is to stay away from food for at least a few hours and shift into ‘burning’ mode.
