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When it comes to determining ways and causes of losing weight, we find ourselves learning either from our peer’s experiences or advice from the internet. But if you dig deeper into the idea of losing weight, you find yourself seeing various contradicting opinions regarding the ways how weight is lost. Truth is told the results of each weight-losing method vary mainly from our daily meal intake and our body metabolism. So let’s jump into the top 10 myths about losing weight that people believe work and what doesn’t.
1. MYTH: Skipping meals helps you to reduce weight
FACT: If a person is not gaining the appropriate amount of protein, carbohydrate, and fat, the person will have severe changes to the metabolic rate in their body.
Who skips their meals?
To this day people still believe or even consider skipping meals would help them lose weight. Moreover, working adults are also prone to skipping meals due to their tight working life. But those who have taken the steps to skip meals believe that it would help increases their metabolic rates. Generally, people who tend to skip meals, especially their breakfast or lunch would take a bigger meal intake for their dinner instead and they are disregarding the consequences to their health.
Feeling Hungry? Just go ahead and eat a healthy breakfast to kick-start your day. Image generated from memegenerator.net
The mindset of skipping meals
A person who desires to lose weight is a long-term struggle not only physically but mentally as well. Generally, people around us are now focusing on a healthy lifestyle, while the process of physically losing weight requires immense effort and time, the mental ability to push people to take the steps is the only aspect that drives them to take measures to lose weight. When it comes to people who opted to skip meals are people who are not into understanding the basic needs of nutrition and they are more than willing to go through the risk of skipping meals. Moreover, they are in a state of not having the confidence of losing weight through physical effort and instead taking the easier way by not having proper daily meal intake.
Is skipping meals scientifically proven to work?
Based on the medical research studies from the US National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health, the impacts of reducing meal frequency without caloric restriction on glucose regulation in health will risk changing their metabolic rate. If skipping meals is practiced on a long-term basis it could lead to diabetes. With all the negative implications of practicing skipping meals, apparently, there were studies showing that skipping meals daily would improve a person’s health.
Studies indicated that overweight adults with mild
asthma ate average meals daily for 2 months lost an average of 8 percent of their body weight and asthma conditions have gotten better.
Still, complicating whether to eat or not to eat? Image from twitter:@alexisleetay
Generally skipping meals have varied results based on who is practicing it, be it from an average working adult or an obese person with asthma-related symptoms. Additionally, skipping meals will deprive your body of essential nutrients, minerals, and vitamins. Moreover, it will also result in lean muscle loss and causes your boy into a starvation state which in turn will slow down your metabolism, and once you stop skipping meals, your body would effectively gain weight twice as fast as the usual person. But when it comes to people who skip meals during the day and have a higher meal intake during the evening would cause harmful effects on the metabolic changes in the body.
Just eat in moderation rather than skipping meals. Image from quotehd.com
2. MYTH: Eating Fatty Food Makes You Fat
FACT: Consuming fatty foods does not make you fat but they’re consuming it in moderation is sufficient to maintain a healthy diet.
Fatty Foods…Yay or Nay?
It would seem sensible to believe that consuming fattening foods makes us fat, but is it really the truth? Honestly because fat enters into our body does not mean it would be absorbed into our body, however long persisting myth does not make much sense. According to nutritionist experts, consuming fatty foods does not actually make you fat. Consuming fatty foods in moderation is an essential part of any healthy and balanced diet. Gaining more weight in the form of fat is a result of energy imbalance development. A person will gain more weight if he/she consumes more calories than he/she burns. Fat is a concentrated source of calories, but it is not essential to remove fat from your diet entirely.
You can still eat your favorite junk/fast foods as long as it is not part of your daily meal though. Image from designcloud.com
Which is healthy fatty food and which is not?
Whole-food fats such as nuts, seeds, and avocado are satiating which helps you feel fuller for a longer period of time. Even though consuming fatty foods will make you fat, carbohydrates and proteins will make you fat to a certain extent too. Moreover, fatty foods such as coconut oil and fish oil provide variability in weight gain, but the weight will increase when consume too much. Fat-laden products such as fast foods and snacks contain calories but a modest amount of consumption may help you feel full and consuming it with healthy foods, such as vegetables would even taste better. Additionally, fats also help with the absorption of certain vitamins and phytonutrients, which are compounds that are commonly found in plants that can help to improve our health.