Anybody wanting to lose weight fast is desperately searching for the latest trick to lose weight. This way, they try things like a low carb diet or other diet plans which can bring to poor or no result and can make them think there's no way they will ever lose weight.
What they should know is that there are a right and a wrong way to lose weight. The right way can help to lose weight fast too, as far as the wrong one can drive anybody in a trap they will find hard to get out of.
Here is a list of the most common strategies to lose weight fast and of the mistakes associated with them.
Immediate Results
Nowadays, everybody wants anything "right now". Just to make an example, somebody recently asked me for a method to lose 18lbs in 4 days. Mostly, this is a dissociation from reality. Getting immediate weight loss results (I mean, in a couple of days) is always difficult, especially if you start from a long period of sedentary life.
First of all, you need to get used to exercise, and this takes time for your muscles to adapt. Then, you need to cleanse your organism from all the junk you've been eating for so long. Moreover, you need to adapt to your new healthy habits.
In the end, if you're not losing weight fast at first it shouldn't be a surprise.
The mistake people do is to take this adaptation period as a failure and quit after less then one week, losing any chance for lasting weight loss results.
Low Carb Diets
A low carb diet can be a good strategy in a weight loss plan, but it has some pitfalls as well. It can get you good results fast: you'll realize you're losing weight quickly and you'll be happy about it.
But the biggest mistake about a low carb diet, as for all the other lose weight diet plans, is sticking to it for a long time. The quick efficiency of this strategy would suggest you to go on with it for the rest of your life. Actually, this can cause a strong deficiency which can result in long term weakness and, eventually, severe health problems.
You can reduce the amount of carb your body needs by following a low carb diet, but you need to do it for a short period of time, or your body will suffer from it.
Aerobic Exercise
Aerobics is one of the best form of exercises to lose weight fast. It forces your metabolism to grow and brings your body to burn more energy. When I first decided to lose weight, I spent almost a whole month doing nothing else than cycling, treadmill and other aerobic exercises for 1 to 2 hours 3 times a week. This lead to a consistent weight loss (my first 10 pounds in 17 days).
The most common mistake associated with this kind of approach is that it's not enough all alone and its effects lower as far as you stick to it.
In fact, after some weeks, you body adapts to it, you become more resistant and to have the same benefit in terms of weight loss you need to do more of it. This process can only bring you down through a burn out spiral.
What you need to do instead is balance and alternate it with other types of exercise in order to get the most out of your weight loss plan.
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