Ineffective Practice that Stop You from Reducing Weight

In my 26 years experience so far, I only seen people who want to lose weight and no one is fine with being overweight or just being chubby. Even those who are considered average or thin also talk about losing weight… Of course, we are not going to cover losing weight for those who are thin here.

You may notice many new idea of losing weights. This include suggestion to consume certain foods frequently to lose weights. Scientifically proven or not, there is no way to verify that especially if you are only hearing it from the internet. There are also all sorts of products in the market that emphasis on fruits detox that helps to lose fats and eliminate toxins in the body to achieve slimming down with very little efforts. At most, you only need to consume food to lose weight.

These are the method that we should not consider regardless of their effectiveness of eliminating your body fats to make your body thinner. Losing weights should not be something that target to get thinner as the end result. It’s also to improve your overall health and improve the functionality of your body system. So my main target would be the conventional method that is proven to be effective,

But being effective is not the main and only concern. There are ways that are effective but we still need to consider the impact.

You probably thought of exercise by now. Yes, exercise is definitely a proven way to lose weights. There are unlimited amount of people who lose weights through exercise since ages ago until now and we don’t need more real life example and theory to support this fact. As I’m also one of them who go from L size shirt back to S size.

Despite many people able to lose weights through exercise, there are also many people who could not lose weight even though they have been doing regular exercise since long time ago. This is one of the main point that I'm talk about, and that’s what known as “Ineffective ways of losing weights”. Or simply, you are losing weights the wrong way.

These are the “proven” method that people attempted and able to achieve the end result of losing weights. But as a matter of fact, there are still people who are unable to lose weights effectively using the proven method below.

To avoid leading to some misconceptions about losing weights, I have to emphasis on this one huge myth:

Exercise IS NOT an absolute method for losing weight

You may or may not realize, whenever scientist and health consultants talk about losing weight in the healthy way, if they are not selling any health products, the main topics they will focus on is “Exercise”. But let me make it clear: Exercise is not the method of losing weights. It’s a side benefits that you might or might not get. So it’s not a certain thing that you could achieve.

The reason why I have to emphasize on this is because I’ve been hearing a misconception all the time and people are absolutely certain about it: people who attempted to lose weight tried exercising for a long period of time but there is no sign of reducing in weights, or seems to bring any differences at all compare to without any exercise. So exercising is not effective at all or it could be genetic problem and physical issue, exercise is just not for them.

The purpose of exercise has actually nothing to do with losing weight in the first place, it’s an activity to improve your overall health and make your body active. Sense any points about slimming down or losing weights? Nope and it shouldn’t be. This is why I need you to stop thinking that exercise is the way to lose weights..

If your main focus is just losing weights, you need to think deeper and smarter. You can achieve losing weights in exercise but you need to know exactly how. Don’t follow the so-call proven method and expect it to work because its work for other people. What I will provide below is the things that you need to know and avoid to involve in ineffective weight loss behavior during your weight loss planning.

List of Proven Weight Loss Method that Could Failed

1. Execise

At the very least, as long as you move your body, you are consider exercising. This could be the most basic reasons why misconception on exercising would eventually lead to weight loss occur.

There are wide range of activities that consider as exercise. This include warm up, slow dance, yoga, walking, simple sports, casual workout, tough workout, and extreme workout. As you might have guessed it, the hardest exercise is the one that burn most fats in your body and achieve weight loss effectively.

But you may ask: I do sports for 5 - 7 times a week and I always sweat a lot. But I’m not having any weight loss! Is that mean weight loss is not for me? Well, if you watched “The Biggest Loser” before, you should know that there are a lot of people who are oversized but after going through some hellish training and workout, they eventually got slimmed down. So the key point here is not how frequent you do exercise, is how right you do it.

There are few ways that turn your exercise into nothing:

1. Low volume/period exercise: The type of exercise that doesn't push yourself to the limit. Or rather, you are stopping your self from going further when you only feel slightly tired or doesn't feel like performing more.
2. Partial body exercise: You only perform exercise on certain part of the body, such as only hand or abdominal.
3. Once-in-a-blue-moon exercise: You may or may not perform tough workout but you are only doing it like once in a week or a month.

On side note, there are people who had genetic or physical problem that results in gaining weights easily and harder to slim down. But this only means requiring more effort to achieve weight loss, but not impossible.

2. Skipping Meals

While there are facts stated that if you skip meal, you tend to consume more food on your next meal. So in the end, it make no difference whether you are skipping meal or not because you are going to eat more later on.

But skipping meal is able to achieve weight loss because when your stomach is hungry, your digestion will start consuming your own body nutrition like an untamed beast that eat its own part due to starvation. As it consume the nutrition in your body, you lose nutrients and eventually achieve weight loss.

Later on at the next meal, you might eat more but there is always a limit to how much you can eat in one meal. Which means, if you are able to consume a bowl of rice, 200 grams of meats and a cup of veggie in one meal, skipping a meal and eating more later on doesn’t mean you will consume two bowls of rice, 400 grams of meats and two cup of veggie. You probably only eat one and half bowl of rice, extra few more meat pieces and few more grams of veggie. So skipping a meal actually able to achieve weight loss.

However, just in case I have not mention it, this post is talking about healthy method to achieve weight loss. Even if I didn’t provide you the impression that I am, I don’t encourage dangerous diet that could cause your life.

Remember the untamed beast that eat up whatever nutritions in your body? We usually call them “hungry” when it’s growl, or we call them starvation. Realize how starvation is one of the top death toll around the world? Just because we live in a place with lots of food and you are consuming food every day doesn’t mean you are totally free from this chaos.

While skipping a meal or two won’t make you feel anything, skipping meals means not consuming sufficient food and nutritions to support your body function and losing nutritions because of the “beast” inside your stomach.

You may not face any fatal illness immediately but all sort of stomach & digestion related illnesses will happen at the matter of time and it will cause serious impact to your entire life. You might not like to know this but, do not risk this because when serious illness happen in your body due to lack of proper food consuming, you probably not achieving any weight loss at all. So it’s not worth taking risk at all.

3. Detox

If you are following the general method of detox of consuming healthy drinks and food, or consuming supplements to detoxify your body, you may have notice improvement in your overall health. But since we are talking about weight loss, as many detox method promise better health and at the same achieving weight loss, how much you actually know about weight loss in detox? Honestly, I do not know the inner details of how detox work inside human body to achieve weight loss. But I do know that detox has a strong relation with your usual diet.

As detox is a process of “flushing out” the toxins in your body, your body will eventually get better and better depending on what type of detox method you use as long as you are doing it right.

But what people usually done wrong is forgetting that their body is not a garbage disposal. When you clear out toxins from the inside of your body, don’t consume other type of toxins and expect that the detox will still be effective because you are still practicing your particular detox method. In other words, in your process of detox, you need to ensure clean food consumption without consuming foods that have lots of oil and bad fats that put burden into your body. As detox is just a method to flush toxins, not something that build long term resistance to toxins inside your body.

So when you consume more unhealthy food, detox actually doesn’t work well to filter out all those toxins that you are consuming time by time. You might or might not feel any significance in your weight loss plan, but lack of control in food diet contribute to defeating the purpose of detox in the first place.

4. Compensation Eating

The terms “cheat day” is when you are carrying out your planned diet and suddenly you decided to hack it by consuming foods that are listed in your forbidden list. Compensation eating actually referring to a worse situation than cheat days, it’s a type of mindset that think having few days of “healthy” food, it’s fine to consume unhealthy food.

While I don’t totally against this idea as I’m doing that sometimes. Compensation eating will lead you to consuming unhealthy food in a regular basis. The problem is you don’t realize it as a problem because you thought to yourself that you are consuming healthy food regularly. As a matter of fact, yes you are consuming healthy food regularly, and you are also consuming unhealthy food regularly.

And again, what’s the problem with that? Consuming healthy food doesn’t eliminate unhealthy food or toxins inside your body because there is no dual core or any high end technology to filter out bad stuff inside your stomach. Your digestion system simply digest anything that you ate.

While eating healthy food provide good nutritions to your body, the bad nutritions in unhealthy food will also be consumed when your digestion system receive it. And the good nutritions from those healthy foods have nothing to do with dealing with those bad food consumption. So consuming unhealthy food basically just means you are being unhealthy, it has nothing to do how healthy you are on a regular basis.

This is why, as you consume more unhealthy food, you are consuming more bad nutritions which might include oil and bad fats that contribute to weight gains.

And so, the Effective Weight Loss

To achieve effective weight loss, you can obtain unlimited method over the internet. But personally, I only prefer to focus on the most basic and simple method without any extra thoughts and planning that work.

Exercise is definitely a must. But if we are talking about weight loss, we don’t want exercise or workout that only make you sweats. And moreover, we don’t want exercise that is relax and easy like light sports and exercise that involve litle movement of your body If you want to focus on losing weights, weight is definitely an issue for you. So simple and relaxing exercise only make you think that exercise is not for you. We want effective and tough workout that involve the movement of your body in overall such as burpee. This will definitely be tough but going through tough workout means achieving much effective workout that you will refer to training later on. And I suggest that you take greed to another level as weight loss is no longer a target, you want to fit and strong body.

The next big thing would be food control and diet. Without this, any effective and extreme workout tend to failed terribly. In Malaysia, it’s hard to find any food that is completely healthy and free from any bad nutrition unless you cook it yourself and you ensure that you don’t add any extra oil and food that could result in a bad diet. Nevertheless, food industry only get more and more creative and bringing in all sorts of attractive foods from other places. You may stop yourself from consuming them once in awhile, but it’s not practical not to consume anything out there anyhow.

This is where the food control and diet play the important role in your food consumption. My main point in this post is not to totally eliminate “unhealthy” food. With moderate control and practice, you are allow to take the delicious yet sinful food down to your stomach but my advice is you need to know how much you suppose to take and when you should not go for it. If you have fried chicken for lunch, don’t take it during dinner just because you have the option to order that. Best if you avoid it for the week. Absolute unhealthy food elimination would drown yourself in depression unless you have the absolute mind to achieve that.

Last but not least, a healthy mindset is a must. You have to be willingly to think in a positive manner and always tell yourself that you want to be healthy. Don’t let whatever bad habits get into your life just because they are there so you tell yourself it’s your fate that you are oversized and no matter how much effort you spent, you are not going to lose any weight at all.

I seen people who serious about losing weight achieved that with extra efforts and determination. Meanwhile, I also witness people who put little effort and hope that weight loss could happen but as expected, it doesn’t. So they choose to give it up. Which one do you want to be then?