Don’t eat after six, drink plenty of water, exercise: popular weight loss myths

So you’ve decided to lose weight. And I probably immediately remembered the main rules for losing weight – everyone knows them. That’s just most of the popular tips on how to lose weight fast – don’t work. We tell you what to forget if you want to lose weight effectively.

You can’t eat after 18:00

You can eat it after six or even after midnight. It is important to understand what and how: do not leave high-calorie, fatty and sweet foods for the evening.

Drink two liters of water a day

Water does not affect the breakdown of fats in the body. If you do not control the diet, the calorie content of the food consumed – no drinking regime will help.

Second time same diet not working

Any diet and calorie reduction helps to lose weight. But following a familiar diet is psychologically more difficult. This becomes an ordinary routine and the person cools down faster and quits what he started. In such a situation, it is important to find additional motivation, set goals, and finish what you start.

I have a bad metabolism so I can’t lose weight

“Slim people burn everything like a furnace but I’m better off a small piece” is a myth because people who are overweight have more active metabolic processes.

Is it heredity, genes or broad bone?

The skeleton with a skull weighs 12 kg. 6 kg without skull. Dehydrated bones 3 kg. As for genetics – there are indeed chromosomes that predispose to weight gain. And 98% of people have it. But it only shows the ability of the fat cell to multiply. Therefore, if the diet is violated, just as every person can be thin throughout his life, every person will become fat in the same way. It all depends on you and your habits.

It’s harder to lose weight with age

At any age, you can effectively reduce weight. Only weight loss after 65 should be treated more carefully, and be sure to contact the specialists.

Fasting or mono diet will help me

Starvation and mono-diets (diets based on the use of a product) lead to even greater weight gain due to the depletion of the body. Yes, people lose weight, but only at the expense of water and muscle mass. Any mono day can deplete the muscle frame and cause a slowdown in metabolic processes. And if you ate 2000 kcal and did not get better, then after the mono diet you will begin to gain weight at the same 2000 kcal.

A small piece does nothing

A small bite can be a calorie bomb. Size often doesn’t matter. And as I get to know overweight people, I can tell that they usually have these very small parts.

It is best to lose weight in the spring or from Monday.

There are many such myths: after the New Year the diet works better, in spring or autumn it is easier to lose weight, from Monday it will work 100%. You can put it off for the rest of your life, but you can actually start losing weight right now. Because your weight and waist circumference depend only on you.