New Weight Loss Techniques Revealed!

There are many websites and programs purporting to have discovered new weight loss methods. They all have the same claims; "Lose 30lbs in 30 days" "Drop 12lbs in 7days" etc. Surprisingly, there are some that do work. You can actually lose weight with these "new weight loss methods". There are pills that suppress your appetite, increase your metabolism, and give you the feeling of having lots of energy.

There are diets that will help you lose a colossal amount of weight in a short space of time. Yes it's true, they do exist, but there are two fundamental problems with these diets.

1) They are unsustainable. People go on diets, only to come off of them again. This is why people typically experience the 'yoyo effect' with their body weight increasing and decreasing over a period of time. Have you ever heard of a permanent diet? Creating a sustainable, healthy lifestyle is better. Regularly eat foods that are nutritious and good for your body. If you can achieve that, then dieting will no longer even be necessary.

2) These rapid weight loss techniques often DO NOT help you lose much body fat! Often the weight loss occurs from two other sources. You lose excess body water, which of course can be a good thing, but you often also lose lean muscle mass. This is a very bad thing. Going on diets without exercising can actually lose you upto 50% in lean body mass - Not Fat. With a higher lean body mass, you'll also burn more calories during exercise. If you put two people side by side jogging on a treadmill, one of them with 180 pounds of lean body mass and the other with 150 pounds of lean body mass, the person with 180 pounds of lean body mass will burn more calories from the exact same workout. The most efficient way to burn more calories and lose more body fat is to gain more muscle. Weight training is very beneficial to anyone who wants to lose fat and that includes women.

There are some types of exercise regimes that do assist in fat loss. These include HIIT or High Intensity Interval Training which is relatively old knowledge, cardio works outs which have also been around for a while, and then there are new techniques such as The Tabata Method, which is an optimized HIIT program.

In truth, most of all these diets, pills, exercise products and supplements are there for one main reason. To play on the fears and pain of the people who want to get in shape and put billions of dollars into this fat loss industry. You don't need all of that stuff. Not at all. If you were to drink between 2-4 litres of water per day, eat nutritionally balanced meals in smaller quantities throughout the day, and exercise with an elevated heart rate for one hour per day, you'll be living a very healthy lifestyle already.

In closing my advice to you, is don't buy the hype. Fad diets rarely work. A lot of new weight loss methods are a rehash of old ones that are just packaged differently. They are there to make huge companies rich. Remember you may lose weight, but its fat you really want to lose. Losing lean body mass can make you look withered and unwell, an even worse look than excess weight.