With improving living standards and higher disposable income, this has resulted in a new type of self made disease. This disease is call obesity or otherwise known as "rich man" disease. Why? ...Have you ever seen a poor beggar suffering from obesity? You will really be hard pressed to find one on the streets. Because of changes in our lifestyles, the foods that we take today are no longer healthy. With pressure like time constraints, people seem to spend more time at restaurants rather than at home. With what is normally served at restaurant, it shouldn't be a surprise that a person will gain weight quickly.
Wrong! Self-proclaimed fitness gurus, charlatans, etc. would advise you to lose weight. But they are giving you just a general type of advice. If you visit a doctor or a professional nutritionist, they will tell you that it is the FAT you should lose, NOT weight!
When you consider that your body weight is comprised of not just fat but also valuable tissues, muscles, water content, bones, etc., you will realize why 'weight loss' is a misleading word. Fat loss should be a more appropriate term, but unfortunately very few are aware of this difference!
Therefore if you are thinking of losing weight, you could be endangering your life instead. Without knowing what you are doing, you could be heading for disaster and not realized it.
For example, there several ways to lose weight quickly, but these methods won't necessarily help you lose fat. Case in point: starvation. You can lose weight by staving yourself. However, this won't help you lose an iota of fat, the thing you WANT to lose!
Starving your body of food lead it to adjust itself. The body reacts to burning Stored fuels for energy instead when its supply of calories is cut off. It will first burn,Carbs, Protein and when then Muscles. Your body fat will be the last components that will be used as substitute for energy because it is the hardest component to burn .
As I had explained, when you starve yourself to lose weight, what you will lose is your muscles first and not the fat. This is because your body find it harder to convert fat to energy as compared to muscles. There is also another reason why by starving you will not lose the fat in your body.
Most people starve for a few days and then they are unable to bear with hunger anymore! What they do next is start gorging on food like never before! This won't necessarily help you regain your lost muscle mass, unless you exercise regularly, but you will surely gain a lot of extra fat than what you had! That is because in the absence of muscles, your fat is not burned at the level it used to be (do you know that the more muscles you have the more fat you can burn?)!
In conclusion, eat only healthy foods and exercising regularly. And before starving yourself or embarking on any weight loss program, ensure that the program is talking about losing your fat and not just weight loss. I lost 40 lbs in 3 months with extreme dieting measures that almost destroyed my health. Spicy food + lots of milk that lead to serious diarrhea every day. I've been doing a bit of research after my dramatic weight loss experience and found that there's actually a PROGRAM designed to do what I attempted, except its basically more healthier and effective.
You can find that specific program at Weight Loss Insider. I recommend you take a look at this Fitness Model Program and see what they have to say about what you should do to lose 40lbs in 3 months healthily!
