Weight Loss Tips: The Problem With Rapid Weight Loss

ByJoe Varghese

Fast weight loss diets are popular because most people who set out to lose weight want to do it very quickly. Unfortunately losing weight quickly is not a realistic goal. Make no mistake there are a lot of marketers who are more than happy to sell you products that promise miracle results, and they may well work in the short term. However if you do lose weight quickly you will also regain it quickly. You simply can't achieve lasting weight loss in a short period of time; it takes months to lose a significant amount of weight.

The main problem with losing weight quickly is that most of the weight that you lose will be water and muscle rather than fat. The result is that when you go off of the diet that you are on you will quickly put the weight right back on. In most cases you will actually end up with even more fat than you had before you started. The reason is that losing the muscle slows down your metabolism, which means that you will burn less fat naturally throughout the day. Therefore any successful weight loss program will be designed to ensure that you retain muscle, something that can't happen with fast weight loss programs.

Since we have established that you can't lose weight quickly, at least not if you expect to keep it off, it is reasonable to ask just how fast can you lose weight? As a general rule you should expect that you will be able to lose about two pounds a week. This is the maximum that most people can lose without most of it being muscle and water. There will of course be some variation from person to person but you should not expect to lose much more than this.

The best way to lose weight is by reducing the amount that you eat to slightly less than the amount that you need to maintain your current weight. There are lots of calculators online that you can use to determine how many calories you need at your current weight level. Once you know this you will want to reduce the number that you eat each day to a few hundred less than this amount. In addition you will want to add exercise to your daily routine both to increase the number of calories that you burn and to add muscle. This will make sure that you are losing weight the proper way and not doing it too quickly.

These are just a few of the many weight loss tips that you can use to help you shed the pounds. If you want to take the weight off quickly then it is important that you learn how to use fast weight loss diets in the proper way so that you can get the maximum benefit out of them

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