How to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks

This article is about what you already know or knew to be true. Weight loss is a 40 million dollar industry and new diets and programs that try to make easy money by promoting their specific foods or supplements to help you lose weight superfast. You have probably seen those claiming to help you lose 20 pounds in a week and other ridiculous statements. It is very easy to fall for this kind of promotion since the products have gone through many trials, clinical studies and more.

Well, all of the information printed in an advertisement is probably true, at least statistically speaking. statistics are large but easily re-focused and taken out of context to give them the data they want to deceive you. weight loss is simple, you go on a diet and lose ten pounds in a week, congratulations!

But what did you really lose? Ten pounds of fat? Perhaps, you are more likely to have lost about 2 pounds of fat, 4 pounds of water and 4 pounds of lean muscle. You should not aim at weight loss but fat loss and as you can see is a big difference. Show me the food that burns 10 pounds of fat in a week and I was very impressed, obesity problem solved. Let's take a look at some diets and programs that you think that fat loss is easy and you do not need any exercise . low-carb diet - it has become very popular for a few years now.

Dieters on a strict low carbohydrate diet are setting their own for a rebound once they re-introduce carbohydrates. most all the weight lost is gained back. It is healthy to be on a low carb diet? There is still a lot of debate about this but most of the top scientists agree that a balanced diet is preferred in the long run. Atkins is one of the diets that recommend very low carb intake and calories are replaced with processed and saturated fats.

Healthy? also for the debate so for now you have to make your own opinion about it. lose weight without exercise - if you are interested in losing fat permanently is more important to increase your exercises instead of just counting calories. In the example above you learned that weight loss and fat loss is not the same thing. If you cut back on calories by 50% or even more of your body put it self in a famine in the body and instead of using fat for energy it uses your muscles.

However, if you exercise with running and weight lifting your body believe you need the muscle so instead it uses fat for energy. Our body has become 'smart' within the millenniums of evolution. the basics of permanent fat loss is easy to understand but it takes discipline and hard work to achieve. There is no shortcut, no easy way and when you make up your mind that it is time to lose fat, do not fall into either of these diets promoted as easy, fast and proven.

It's just a waste months of dieting and if you fail it takes time to get the courage to start a new diet. Jennifer Olsen was a master of failing at different diets. He understands that there are more to losing weight then just going on a diet.

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