3 Weight Loss Myths

Weight loss is not a matter of finding the right shake, pill, or diet program.

Even though Americans are heavier and sicker than ever before, and now obesity is running rampant amongst our children, we continue to be baffled at how we can slim down and stay fit. We should know by now that weight loss fads (and there is a new one every month) are not worth the time or money we’ve been spending on them for so long.

Companies are constantly scrambling to convince us that they have the answer, that if we just buy their products we’ll achieve our goals. It’s time for everyone to wake up and realize that these gimmicks DO NOT WORK! They are produced to make profits, not to help us be well. As long as weight loss is a billion dollar industry, they’ll keep coming up with new ways to get into our wallets.

Here are 3 weight loss myths you should know…

Weight Loss Myth #1:

There is an obesity gene. This is an absolute fallacy. Our genes haven’t changed in 40,000 years and obesity has just recently become an epidemic. Obesity results from nothing more than living life in opposition to our genetic programming:

• We continue to fill our plates with food that is made in a factory instead of that which is made by nature.
• We eat an entire day’s worth of calories in one sitting.
• And we get nowhere near the amount of exercise that is required to keep us well.

So our bodies have no choice but to store the excess food as fat.

The only hereditary error from which kids suffer is the one they learn from their parents. We feed our children chicken fingers, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, fast food, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and wonder why they are developing disease earlier and earlier with each generation.

It’s not a mystery.

Every single morsel of food we eat that is not made by nature is seen as a toxin by the body.

This eventually results in sicknesses like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and the list goes on and on.

Weight Loss Myth #2:

Cutting carbs is the answer. This myth has become so common it is accepted as truth. It is not.

You don’t have to cut carbs to lose weight. You have to eat the right KINDS of carbs.

Carbs are really just sugar, so when you eat a lot of them, your body will store them as fat (meanwhile making you insulin resistant, which is another topic altogether).

We were meant to get our carbs from fruits and vegetables, not from processed cereal, diet bars, chips, bread, and the like.

If we eat real food (made by nature), the sugars in them are easily and properly broken down and assimilated by our digestive system. If we don’t, it will destroy our ability to balance our insulin levels and lead to Type 2 Diabetes (along with various other health problems).

Any carb that is also a fiber is good for you. All others are not.

Weight Loss Myth #3:

There is a perfect program for me somewhere. All humans have the same genetic code whether you are Caucasian, Asian, Hispanic, or whatever. This means that we ALL have the same genetic requirements.

There is nothing special that YOU need that is different from everyone else. Do you know which class of zebra has different requirements for being healthy than all other zebras?

THERE ISN’T ONE!

This means if you want to be healthy, you have to live like healthy people live.

The great thing about following this advice is that the same lifestyle practices that lead to real, permanent weight loss also lead to wellness. It also cuts down on all the confusion regarding nutrition and longevity.

I know losing weight is difficult.If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t have a society full of overweight people. But the best thing you can do is stop listening to commercials and the media. They are the #1 source of weight loss myths. Not only are they uninformed, they are not looking out for your best interests.

Start slow, take it day by day, and be easy on yourself when you slip up. Eventually, you’ll get to the finish line.

For more weight loss myths, see part 2 of this article.