Natural Weight Loss

Obesity is one of the primary health concerns of the 21st century. Over weight people are desperate to lose weight and gain a shapely figure or physique and are ready to try out anything to attain their goal, from power yoga to fad diets to dietary supplements.

Playing on the sentiments of obese people trying hard to counter the social stigma attached to being similar to an oversized balloon, weight loss supplements have flooded the market and have chosen a powerful marketing blitz as their tool to lure customers.

Over the past few years, the popularity of weight loss supplements has increased by leaps and bounds along with rising awareness of the potential health hazards associated with obesity.

These supplements may be herbs or pills or powder to be mixed with water or milk or medicines and they claim to burn calories and make you lose weight. These so called magic pills and wonder remedies are available over the counter and are called OTC dietary/weight loss supplements.

People are blindly hooked on to these things, but most of them don’t know that weight loss supplements are anything but safe and wreak havoc on your system in the long run. On top of that these hardly ever work and are a complete waste of money and health.

You should consult your doctor before trying out weight loss supplements and your physician would surely discourage you from using such harmful worthless products.

A mind boggling variety of 50 individual dietary supplements and 125 combination weight loss supplementary cures will spoil you for choice , but they don’t match up to the standards or criteria set down by the medical associations or communities of the country or by FDA i.e. UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION.

With some products, users have reported an insignificant amount of weight loss. But the potential side effects of these strong products have led to many of these weight loss dietary supplements being banned.

But some chemists, in spite of the ban placed on some of them, are selling them. Weight loss supplements like CHROMIUM, GUAR GUM, and CHITOSAN etc are popular and claim to be market leaders, but most of them are ineffective and the long term side effects are hazardous and fatal. No wonder doctors always advise against these harmful products.

Herbal weight loss supplements, which claim to be ‘safer’ than the chemical ones contain ingredients like hydroxycitric acid, pyruvate, I-carnitine, glucomannan, guarana, conjugated linoleic acid, ephedra or ephedrine, ginseng etc and result in heart ailments and drastic rise in blood pressure!

So you can easily understand how safe they are! FDA hasn’t given them approval. Two other fat burners are ST. JOHN’S WORT and green tea. The latter is safe and research has proved that green tea can burn 78 calories per day.

It is best to avoid pills and supplements which claim to reduce your weight for you without involving any kind of physical exertion/exercise.  If you look after your own health you will also be better equipped to look after the health of your babies or older children.  They will really thank you in the end.

Contrary to what you may believe or what advertisements of slimming centers and fitness centers may claim, there is no magic formula that can reduce your weight in a jiffy and gift you a new slim and trim look in 2 or 4 weeks.  A good solid weight loss plan is very important.

Nor should you place your faith or hard earned money in diet pills and slimming pills and other such wonder cures for obesity, even if they claim they are safe and wont cause side effects.  There are many cheap weight loss products, just make sure you know what you are buying before parting with any money.

These people trying to sell these magic formulas and incredible remedies, assuring rapid weight loss, are simply frauds who are aiming to make some quick money by playing on your sentiments and duping gullible people who are overweight.

They are taking you for a ride at the cost your own health and precious money and a few weeks after you have attended their rapid weight loss program, you will get back to your old ways and regain all the flab that you had shed by using their machines.

Healthy weight loss cannot take place overnight; it is a gradual process that combines proper diet, life style changes, elimination of bad habits and moderate to intensive exercising along with a disciplined life. Determination and motivation are also key factors.

Diet

Free your diet of calorie rich food, oily fatty fried spicy food items, junk food, sweets, chocolates, aerated drinks, chips, cookies, pastries, cakes and other such items high in fat, cholesterol, unsaturated fat and other harmful ingredients which block the arteries and lead to obesity, cardiac arrest, stroke and other such life threatening diseases.

Instead replace them with fresh fruits, vegetables, spinach, fish, olive oil, lean meat, Lean protein, fibrous food, whole wheat items, brown bread, brown rice, fruit juices, 10-14 glasses of warm water, warm lime water mixed with a dash of honey every morning on an empty stomach and other such healthy food.

Warm water is supposed to melt fat, wash away the accumulated toxins in your system and suppress your appetite. Thus your stomach feels filled. If you include fat burning food in your diet, you will be even more benefited. Citrus fruits rich in vitamin C such as tangerines, oranges, lemons, limes etc as well as other fruits like water melons, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, apricots, and apples have properties which can liquefy or dilute fat. Green tea, rich in antioxidants, is another powerful calorie burner.

Probiotic fat free yoghurt and ice cream, fat free milk, garlic, broccoli, cabbage, asparagus, carrots, beet roots, leeks, shrimps, scallion, brinjal, turnips, beans, parsley, pea, pumpkin are also good options.

Exercise

However you have to combine this diet with power yoga, aerobic exercise, running, jogging, brisk walking, cardiovascular exercises, resistance training, weight lifting, sports and even outdoor exercising to attain rapid weight loss in a healthy manner.  You should also understand exercise and nutrition and what foods you should be eating pre and post a workout.

I’ve just set up this blog so there really isn’t anything here for you to see.  However my aim is make this a useful and interesting resource for those who want to lose weight naturally and above all else, healthily.  There’s no point in losing weight if you are going to make yourself ill in the process.  Losing weight = healthy as far as I’m concerned.