Alli diet pill question?
by JohnB349 on Sun May 10, 2009 6:26 am
Diet pills that restrict your appetite or using diets that restrict your calorie intake too much are detrimental to your weight loss goals. Yes, they will take the weight off, but they will hurt your long term weight loss goals.
First of all, lets see if you actually even need to lose weight. Many people think they need to lose weight when it's not necessary. You can estimate your body fat content by using our body mass index calculator or body mass index tables. Your BMI (body mass index) can be a good indicator of the percentage of body fat you have.
If you want to lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way, stay away from diet pills that reduce your appetite, and don't restrict calories too much, both are counterproductive to what you want - healthy weight loss that you will be able to sustain. When you come off your diet plan and do start to eat again, you will be sure to gain back whatever weight you lose, and you'll more than likely gain back more weight than you originally lost.
When you diet by not eating, or drastically reduce your diet, your body perceives itself as starving and lowers your metabolism (how fast you burn calories at rest) to compensate. Instead, you should go for weight loss in a healthy manner that will be sustainable instead of yo-yo dieting.
Raise your body's metabolism in a healthy way just by eating! Your body actually raises its' metabolism each time you eat. What you should do is take your normal diet and spread it out over 5 or 6 smaller meals throughout the day. This will help keep your metabolism at a higher level throughout the entire day. You're just about guaranteed to lose weight without even changing your diet. This tip alone will aid you greatly in your endeavor to lose unhealthy body fat.
Stay away from the obvious things - cookies, cakes and candies. Soda is a real killer; one twelve ounce can of soda will support about 11 pounds of body weight for a body at rest for an entire day. Don't eat anything within 4 hours of going to bed. And stay away from things made with white flour; your body processes it just like sugar. Eat foods made from whole grains instead.
Any exercise (walking, cycling, etc.) that you do for more than twenty continuous minutes kicks in the fat burning machine and will help you lose weight. After twenty minutes, on average, your body starts to burn fat for energy instead of carbohydrates. Anything you can do beyond that point is a bonus. Also, if you can do your exercises first thing in the morning it will give your metabolism a boost for the entire day helping you even more in your endeavor to lose even more weight.