Myths about weight loss you need to get rid of right away

Dhwani Vora | Jun 4, 2019, 12:15 IST
These days, people are just so conscious about their weight that they can go to any extent to stay in shape. And with the growing trends, people only tend to pick things to start seeing quicker results before even knowing the truth behind these things. One wrong move and your health will deteriorate thus causing harm to your body.

Hence, before you start following any kind of trend, always keep yourself well informed about its pros and cons. Likewise, there are many myths about weight loss that people need to get rid of instead of following them blindly. Some of them are mentioned below:

- Cutting down on carbs will help you lose weight: This is the first thing people believe while going on a weight loss process. But, cutting down on carbs will in turn lead you to gain weight even more.

- Cut down on calories if you want to lose weight: This isn't going to be any helpful. Because if you tend to do so, you might lose weight at first but it'll harm your body gradually than keeping it healthy. This will only lead to deficiencies and decrease in metabolism rate.

- Exercising for long hours will help you shed more kilos: Spending a lot of time in the gym will not be of any use. Exercising is a great way to lose weight but not over-exercising as it might put your body in a lot of stress and can give you more health issues.

- Getting a surgery or popping pills is an effective way towards weight loss: You are only messing up with your body in the long run if you follow this myth. Pills are really dangerous for you body and so you should never believe anybody saying otherwise. likewise, surgeries come with their pros and cons and they might even mess up with your system.

- You gain back all the weight that you once lost: You actually end up confusing eater weight with actual weight. Water weight sure does come back but not the actual weight, so stop believing this myth. It's very important to follow a diet to lose weight and so if you're looking to maintain some kilos, you don't have to worry about water weight.

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