Dieting, Scams and Losing Weight

I've been reading so much stuff on diets and weight loss that I've lost about 15 pounds since I just can't stand to eat anything anymore. Maintaining any weight loss requires a sensible diet and regular exercise.

Patches, gels and creams -- nothing that you apply to your skin has been proven to cause weight loss.

So why do we continue to fall for th

I've been reading so much stuff on diets and weight loss that I've lost all round 15 pounds since I just can't stand to eat some anymore. Not protein, not carbs, not chocolate, nothing.

And I'm getting very hungry, but for what? It's fabulous how many different diets are contemporaneous pushed. And then there are the pill, herb, and extract scams. A number of the fad diets are downright dangerous. Use of zero-cal sugar substitutes may not only be extremely dangerous, but there's some evidence that they may guiding star weight gains.

I just ran into this site set up by the FTC and the Competition secretariat of Canada to give us all a vivid lesson in how some of these scams work and the kind of claims most fraudulent diet sites use. It's well worth taking a look at: http://wemarket4u.net/fatfoe/ and be sure to be blooded on the order link to see the variation they provide of the type of claims you need to be precise of.

If you're lazy or disinclined to take a look at it, lets look at some of the usual scam tip-off claims. First, you can not lose weight by eating all the high photon food you want. It sounds too good to be true and it is.

The only - ONLY - way to lose weight is by reducing your intake and/or increasing how much you exercise to burn off the calories you take in.

Now that's annoying, but true. To lose weight you're probably going to have to both diet and exercise more.

Any plan that claims you can lose 3 pounds or more a week is either outright lying or exceptionally dangerous. Survivable, sustainable and healthy weight takes time - and effort. day

Nothing exists which club "fat or absorption" and that claims to do it is an outright scam.

No weight loss product or system works for everyone. We're all different and we need different approaches.

No product can constrain permanent weight loss (unless it kills you of course). Maintaining any weight loss requires a sensible diet and regular exercise.

Patches, gels and creams -- nothing that you attribute to your skin has been proven to draw on weight loss.

So why do we continue to fall for this kind of thing? It's unambiguously pretty obvious. We all want an easy, fast, no pain solution to all of our problems. Scam artists use this to guarantee that what we lose is our money.

The unfortunate truth is that there is no "magic bullet" for anything. Oh, we want to believe. We want desperately to swear by that we can consummate whatever our dream is without any pain or hard work. And that desire is the hook that every con is based on.

Weight loss is no different than getting rich overnight (with no work). No way. Don't be conned, if you want to and need to lose weight there a few simple things you should do. First - see your doctor and develop a reasonable diet that reduces your superheat intake and - with medical blessing - start an exercise regimen.

You need to modify your lifestyle and then, to keep the weight off, you need to maintain a healthy diet and a rational exercise plan. We may all wish there were an easier way, but it doesn't exist.

Copyright 2005 Richard Keir