7 Weight Loss Myths Debunked

These are 7 myths about losing weight DEBUNKED:

Eating fat is not what’s causing you to accumulate fat around your belly and in other places around your body. Weight gain is the result of a complicated combination of bad eating habits and practices built up over time often aided by a sedentary lifestyle that results in a slowing of your metabolism.

But the one macronutrient most responsible for weight gain is the carbohydrate, more specifically simple refined carbs. When you eat meals heavy in refined white flour and added sugars, starches and fibre-poor foods and then wash them down with sugary drinks or juices, you’re causing your blood glucose to spike.

Simple carbs are converted to glucose very quickly in your blood long before your body has time to metabolise them and use them as fuel. As soon as glucose appears in your blood, your pancreas creates insulin, the hormone that transports that glucose to your cells for energy. But when you have too much glucose, and in turn too much insulin, your cells get overwhelmed and begin to resist all the insulin coming in. That’s called insulin resistance and that’s when you start accumulating fat.

Here’s an article explaining what happens when your cells resist insulin:

In comparison, fat is the only macronutrient of the three that doesn’t cause any spikes in blood sugar at all.

Yes, you can eat too much fat which is generally higher in calories than carbs and protein. However, fat is also very satiating and fills most people up before they can eat too much.

This doesn’t mean you should go out and down tons of foods high in saturated fats. But healthy, monounsaturated fats like avocado, olive oil and nuts among others contain the fats our cells need as well as other essential nutrients.

And for comparison’s sake, if you eat a sandwich with a fatty piece of meat between two slices of heavily processed white bread, you’re far better off ditching the white bread and eating the meat than the other way around.

You’ve surely heard this theory before. Instead of loading up on three large meals, eat more smaller meals throughout the day. This advice couldn’t be less conducive to weight loss. Once again, it’s a question of insulin. Everything you eat, unless it’s pure fat, cause rises in blood sugar and the production of insulin.

Eating multiple meals a day will only result in your body constantly producing more insulin.

This is an advertising slogan created in the 1890s by John Kellog, to convince people to buy more of his newly invented corn flakes. Not only did it work, it’s become a catchphrase ingrained in our psyches for all of eternity.

The truth is, some people need breakfast to get through the first part of the day while others need to skip breakfast because it slows them down.

Anyone who has enjoyed the benefits of intermittent fasting knows you don’t need breakfast to feel energised inn the morning. Nor do you need it to get your RDA of nutrients for the day. As a practicer of intermittent fasting, which has resulted in sustained weight loss over many years for me, I can attest that breakfast is not my most important meal of the day. In fact, NOT eating breakfast has been revolutionary to my personal health, resulting in the sustained weight loss that long eluded me earlier in life.

Fasting for eighteen hours and then scarfing down a few Big Macs and an extra large order of fries followed by a couple of pizzas is not going to get you the results you need.

It’s simple, if you are eating more calories than your body is able to burn, you will not lose weight. Whether you eat your calories throughout the day or within your six hour eating window after fasting, too many calories is too many calories.

This is one of the biggest crimes perpetrated against consumers in the history of food production. Make no mistake, corporations spend huge amounts of money lobbying governmental bodies for the right to slap erroneous and misleading labels on their packages in order to appear healthy.

When a package says ‘Low Fat’ that means it was stripped of the thing that makes that food taste good and replaced with another thing that will make it taste good: sugar.

These same companies have come up with a million and one ways to say ‘sugar’ without ever mentioning the word on their packaging.

Here are some of them:

The bottom line is simple. If it comes in a box or package, even if it says ‘Fat Free’, it’s riddled with chemicals, preservatives and additives that have nothing to do with food. If you want to lose weight in a sustainable and healthy way, eat real, whole foods.

This is another Big Money and Big Food crime against consumers that, at best is erroneous and misleading, and at worst, harmful to human health. So-called healthy cooking oils made from the seeds of plants with labels like ‘Heart Healthy’ or ‘Low Cholesterol’ are dangerous to your health. To extract the oil, the seeds are cooked at extremely high temperatures that alter their chemical composition and render the final product unfit for consumption.

This process is called hydrogenation and results in trans fats, a highly inflammatory form of fat that paradoxically leads to rises in cholesterol, rapid weight gain, diabetes and other illnesses. Heating these oils creates free radicals, unstable atoms that cause tissue damage throughout your body and increase the risk of cancers, heart disease and stroke.

The same goes for margarine.

You’re far better off cooking with a high-fat oil with a high flashpoint like coconut oil, butter or good old lard, which don’t produce free radicals and the sinister inflammation-fuelled diseases they lead to.

And remember, fat doesn’t cause spikes in blood glucose, making it a far better cooking choice than the so called ‘heart healthy’ options that should really be banned from supermarket shelves for their misinformation and the serious health risks they pose to consumers.

If you’ve been trying to lose weight for any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with fitness advice coming at you from all directions, often amounting to unsustainable, unrealistic demands on your energy and time. Thankfully, we now have science on the topic telling us that a little can mean a lot for our health. Whether you prefer using weights, a kettlebell, going to the gym or just using your own body weight, short interval training sessions, in which you repeatedly shred at high intensity for a very short amount of time and then rest for a short amount of time right after, is one of the most effective metabolism boosters known to modern science. Even a few quick rounds a day for a duration of just ten minutes can be a powerful tool that speeds up your metabolism, improves insulin sensitivity and burns fat long after your workout is done. This method is called high intensity interval training or HIIT.

When you do HIIT, you generate an enormous amount of energy in a short period of time. But it’s in the recovery or resting phase that comes immediately after where the magic happens. Because it’s here where human growth hormone (HGH) is released. And this is that part that you skip when spend extended, drawn-out cardio sessions on a treadmill, the track or on a rowing machine. You an turn any typeof exercise into HIIT. Try it and see for yourself!

By the way, the HGH produced in between your short intense bursts of energy is necessary for many functions. It goes after excess weight like a heat seeking missile burning fat stores both during and long after your workout. It also helps build lean body mass and break down body fat. It regulates energy production, helps the body make protein and maintain bone strength.

Go Human Growth Hormone!

So there you have it. Seven weight loss myths debunked. I’m sure you have some of your own, which I’d love to hear about in the comments. Armed with information, we can all pull our resources together and achieve the leanness, health and fit lives our modern world seems so intent on keeping just out of our reach.

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