Top Four Weight Loss Tips that Will Keep You Fat

The internet, magazines, books, and well-meaning friends are filled with weight loss tips. The goal of each is to lose weight and become healthy. However, overweight people can bounce from one tip to the next with minimal success. The following article explains the top four weight loss tips that will keep you fat.

Weight Loss Tip - Try This Diet Drug

The weight loss market is huge, and one of the main sources of revenue is the vast arsenal of diet drugs, both over the counter and prescription. Some of them stop absorption of fat or carbohydrates. Others decrease appetite, while others ramp up your metabolism. The one thing that diet drugs do not do is make you lose weight.

Diet drugs can be tools to help you lose weight, but their out-sized claims are often ridiculous. Every diet drug pamphlet includes a blurb that states, When combined with exercise and a healthy diet. The diet drug alone will not make you lose weight.

Weight Loss Tip - Buy a Gym Membership

Gym memberships are great things if you use them. Exercise is one of the most important keys to weight loss. But spending money on a gym membership will do nothing if you do not put forth the effort. Also, the same effort can be done at home for free, unless your intent is bodybuilding with weights.

Many overweight people, when faces with seas of spandex-clad skinny people jumping and running, never go back to the gym.

Weight Loss Tip - Do Not Eat Snacks

Deprivation rarely leads to long-term weight loss. Cutting out all snacks is a recipe for failure. In fact, many health gurus instruct people to eat six or more small meals per day, or three medium meals with a snack mid-morning and mid-afternoon. These snacks keep your metabolism up.

Weight Loss Tip - Food is Not Your Friend

Many overweight people eat for emotional reasons. Overeating is a type of self-medication due to depression, anger, or other emotional distress. If issues like this exist, it is a good idea to get counseling.

Food may not be your friend, but it is hardly your enemy. Shunning food leads to poor health. Eating only bland and unfriendly foods - ones you do not like - will lead to binging. The goal should be to make healthy food your friend, not villianize it altogether.


By Melanie Marten