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Cutting Calories Might Not Work for Everyone

Cutting your calories down might be a great thing if you are drastically overeating and stuffing your face. However, if you are eating proportionally, then cutting calories might have an aversive effect. If you are cutting calories and starving your body, then that will lower your metabolism, or in other words, slow it down, which may result in you not losing any weight at all, even if you are "cutting calories."

Natural Principles Govern Our Weight

Sir Isaac Newton once said, "What goes up must come down." There are natural principles that govern our lives. If you throw a ball up in the air, it is going to come back down. You can sit on your couch and imagine and visualize that the ball will stay afloat in the air, but natural principles teach us that it will come down. The same goes when it comes to our weight.

Weight Loss Myths

There are many common weight loss myths that people live by when it comes to their health. It is difficult at times to separate the weight loss myths and facts from what is true. Many sound true while others are just laughable. For example, I once read somewhere that if you drink water at night, you are going to gain weight, or if you scratch your head too often, you are going to lose your hair.

Quick Weight Loss

If your goal is to lose some weight quickly, then pick one and follow it. I guarantee you will lose some weight. Studies generally find that any of the commercial weight loss diets will get approximately the same amount of weight off after 6 months to a year. For example, a recent study found that the Atkins' Diet, Slim-Fast plan, Weight Watchers Pure Points program, and Rosemary Conley's Eat Yourself Slim diet were all equally effective.

Diet vs. Lifestyle Change

A diet is a short-term strategy to lose weight. Long-term weight loss is the result of an alteration in lifestyle. We are concerned with lifelong weight management, not quick fix weight loss here. I don't like the term diet as it represents a short-term attempt to lose weight vs. a change in lifestyle. Want to lose a bunch of weight quickly? Heck, I will give you the information on how to do that here and now for no charge.

Health Benefits of Weight Loss Surgery

While patients will certainly look and feel better after weight-loss surgery, there are also numerous health benefits associated with successful weight loss. In most cases, health conditions that develop as a result of excessive body weight or are worsened by obesity can be improved upon or, in some cases, remedied by weight-loss surgery.

Phase II: Exercise

We left off with my last article of "Discover How a Quick Weight Loss Can Be a Healthy Weight Loss - Phase I." As a recap, you learned how you should adjust your diet to ensure that your healthy weight loss is also a quick weight loss. Now, we are on to Phase II of your healthy weight loss and quick weight loss journey. So, what is the next fitness tuning path that I must pursue after you have adopted a complete and healthy diet?

Phase II of your healthy weight loss and quick weight loss journey is exercise. Now that you have adopted a complete and healthy diet, and your body has all of the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and proteins that it is supposed to, it is time to put all of that good work to use! Exercise is the next key ingredient to the amazing recipe for your healthy weight loss and quick weight loss.

Not only must you exercise, but you must do so intelligently. There is no need for you to try to kill yourself in the beginning. Instead, it is better for you to take baby steps and to work yourself up to advanced workout routines. The road to a healthy weight loss and quick weight loss will only be as bumpy as you choose to make it!