They Don't Always Work
You're excited that you've finally started a diet. At dinner you excitedly tell everyone at the table that you won't be eating the same entre as them today, but rather a Lean Cuisine meal you picked up at Walgreens. Day after day, you weigh yourself and that arrow just won't stop pointing at 202. Of couse, after all your work, you assume the scale has malfunctioned. So you drive over to your nearest pharmacy and slip a quarter into the expensive looking scale. You're surprised when you find out that you've actually gained two pounds. What happened?
Diets do not always work. Sometimes people think that as long as the meal is low calorie, they can indulge on it. No! You even have to have a smaller portion low calorie meal than your regular meal. That grouped with exercise will definitely ensure weight loss.
Weight Training Does Not Count as Weight Loss Exercise
You're at the superstore and you find some dumbbell exercise videos on clearence. You buy two tapes hoping to lose that excess belly fat that just can't seem to go away. On the way home you drop by a dumbbell store and pick up two 10 pounders. When you arrive at your apartment you pop in one of the dvds and get to work. After the one hour workout you're huffing and puffing and can't seem to breathe, so you call it a day. Since you're a person that likes surprises, you don't weigh yourself until you've done the workouts for two months. The day before the two months are over, you can't help yourself and you jump on the scale. You're surpised you've only lost one pound. What happened?
Weight training alone will not ensure weight loss. It must be grouped with a healthy diet and cardio exercise to help you achieve your goal. On the whole, weight training can help you lose weight by adding muscle mass to your body. The more muscle, the higher your metabolism. But the added metabolism is very little and almost unnoticeable.
Water weight
After days of searching on the internet, you finally find a diet that suits you. You pay the $29.95 fee and immediately are given a burly PDF. You open up the file and scan through the diet. You're amazed to see that you will lose 9 pounds in the first 9 days. The next day you start you diet with drinking the 3 of the 11 cups of water a day assigned by your diet. By the end the of day, you've went to the bathroom atleast 27 times. After 9 days of this repeated activity, you decide to weigh yourself to see if the diet's claims were true. You step on that scale, and, as the diet claimed, you've lost 9 pounds! But you don't feel any skinnier, and your pants don't feel any bigger. What happened?
Many diets claim to have you lose a massive amount of weight in a short amount of time. Most of the time, though, it's not real weight. It's water weight. When you don't drink a lot of water, your body responds to that by storing much of the water you drink. This is because your body thinks that it will not get water when it needs it. This adds much weight to your body. When you drink the large amount of water the diet assigned you to drink, your body now thinks that it will get a constant amount of water when it needs, so it will dispose of the stored water (this is why you go to the bathroom every 20 minutes!). At the end of the 10 days, when all the water that you've drank has gone into that toilet bowl, your weigh will have dropped. It is not real fat that you've burned! It is just water.
