If you read health magazines regularly, you are sure to come across a lot of tips regarding to weight loss. Some of these tips actually work, and others don’t. The ones that generally don’t work are those that suggest fad diets, weight loss supplements and pills. The tips that actually work for everybody are always simple: that of diet and exercise. However, the weight loss industry is ridden with myths and misleading information, and people often tend to twist the truths, either because of their own advantage or out of plain ignorance. In this article I will discuss three such weight loss myths.

1. Myth#1: Spot reduction of fat is possible: Not totally true. This claim is not true to a certain extent and it has been backed up by weight loss experts. Many have been mislead that if you do workouts that focus on a certain area, you can spot reduce fat.

An example would be if you are hoping to lose belly fat just by doing crunches and leg lifts frequently, you will end up losing the muscle mass below the abdomen instead. So what you should do is to implement a healthy diet that would speed up your metabolism rate and assist in fat burning on top of doing the crunches and leg lifts.

2. Myth#2: Cutting down extremely on calorie consumption decreases your body fat: This inaccurate claim has made many to go on crash diets, some even to the extent of starvation with the hope to shed the unwanted pounds. As for most, little did they know that they are actually ruining their body. The body enters the starvation mode when you fast or starve. Cutting down extremely on calorie intake makes the body go into starvation mode and this will slow down your metabolism rate. Hence in order to produce energy, the body will burn your muscles instead of your fat. On top of that, your body will absorb more calories when you resume your normal diet, resulting in weight gain.

3. Myth#3: Cardio exercises alone will help you lose weight: While it is true that cardio exercises can help you lose fat, it is not true that this is the only type of weight loss exercises available; don’t forget the aerobics. As a matter of fact, the amount of fat you will lose doing either cardio or aerobics is almost same. On the other hand, weight lifting is better than both cardio and aerobics, in that it not only helps you burn fat during the workout, but even after that!

I sincerely hope that this article has successfully brought the real weight loss truths before you!