Health and Fitness

Health and Fitness - Why Crash Diets Always Fail:

The number one reason why diets fail is most people have unrealistic expectations of how long a true body-changing diet should take.

Mistake Number One: You have no idea how many calories you are currently eating or how many calories you should be taking in to reach your weight loss goals.

Next, you might decide to throw in some daily cardio exercise like biking or running, because that's what everyone else does.

Mistake Number Two: While exercise will help you burn fat, it's important to remember that the kind of exercise you do, such as cardio or resistance training, and the amount of time you do it, will affect how your body responds.

The right combination of cardio and resistance training combined with the right diet will jumpstart the weight loss process.

After cutting back on your food intake and running every morning, you lose a couple of kg's the first week. A couple of days go by without any weight loss, so you cut your food down even more.

Now it seems like you're always tired and hungry. Your mood is terrible, and even though you've lost 5 kg's, whenyou look in the mirror, you don't look any different.

Here's an interesting fact: a kg of fat takes up five times as much space as a kg of muscle. Since crash diets shed muscle instead of fat, you can't change your overall shape that way.

In a healthy weight loss program, you should expect to lose about two kg's of body fat every week (a woman would lose about one and a half kg's). Losing 5 kg's of fat will make an enormous difference in your appearance, especially compared to losing the same amount of water and muscle weight.

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