It may come as a surprise to some people who are trying to lose weight, but there are actually some tips for doing so very quickly that should really be avoided if you want to maintain a good level of health.
To help you to understand what they are, below are some of the rapid ways of losing weight to avoid and why you should avoid them.
Incidentally, if you were wondering should you lose weight fast, the general answer is that you should not try to go faster than your body is prepared to lose it.
Probably the most dangerous of all rapid ways to lose weight is by undertaking surgery of some kind. This should really only be seen as a last resort when all other methods have failed and when your weight is so great that it poses a serious health risk in itself.
Included in this category are the cosmetic surgery procedures such as liposuction, which while on the face of it looks pretty safe to do, can still have complications that can end up with disastrous results, so if you can find a better way, then do so.
A common strategy to turn to when there doesn't seem any other way to get rid of all the excess fat hanging onto your body is to simply stop eating. This is also known as ″crash dieting.″
While this kind of thing can actually be done to very good effect on the health through ″fasting″ it should be done with your doctor's knowledge and even supervision to be on the safe side.
Of course, total fasting for several days is practised by a number of religions and there is strong evidence to suggest that this actually puts the body in ″healing and detox mode″ while burning fat for fuel. The body is actually designed to use ketones (from fat cells) as fuel when there is no glucose available.
Controlled fasting is one thing, but haphazard crash dieting can be a complete different thing. This usually involves going for lobg periods without food, but then binging on high carb or high sugar foods in short bursts and returning to periods of no eating again.
This strategy is more dangerous as the benefits of true fasting are lost during the binge eating and this can also have an adverse effect on the body in many ways. Your doctor or a medical expert should always be consulted before embarking on this path.
Other rapid ways to shed weight include certain supplements, especially those containing certain berry extracts as acai or the like. They are advertised quite forcefully and often wild claims accompany certain sales pages in order to get people to buy them.
While they may have some health benefits, these are generally long term and will have little effect on any program for losing weight other than to improve the body's uptake of certain nutrients. These are more hype than results driven and will cost you a lot of money for what can often be rather lacklustre results.
Lastly, avoid fad diets that omit while food groups as they can also bring long term health problems. A very popular way to diet in the US is by cutting out carbs, but this is a potentially dangerous way to diet in the long term as many essential nutrients are no longer available in the diet.
And in any case it is quiet common to put back the weight you lost as soon as you resume your regular diet again.
The best way to diet from a health aspect is to maintain a balanced diet that includes all food groups and just keep an eye on portion size while keeping the daily calorie count to a reasonable limit. Avoid obvious foods and snacks such as cakes, cookes, pastries, pie, candy bars, potato chips and other savory snacks etc and also avoid soda and other flavored drinks.
If you maintain a good level of common sense as well as some useful knowledge on which foods are beneficial and which foods are not, you can diet sensibly and lose weight or maintain a healthy weight once you have lost the excess. Go for a slow and steady program over a rapid one for better and more sustainable long term results.