Weight Loss
There are several products now on the market that claim they are successful in producing amazing weight lossresults. They say that this is accomplished without changing one's diet or activity level. I would like to know if anyone has tried any of these products and what were your results.
The costs generally run between one to two dollars (USD) per day, but if the results are half as good as they say, that's very reasonable.
Tell us your experiences. Thank you.
The only loss you'll see with those products is financial. Any product that claims to work without changing diet would have to be something containing caffeine or other stimulants. While there may be a minimal increase in your metabolism, the weight loss would be minor compared to the other health problems they will cause. Other weight loss supplements on the market are actually mild diuretics or laxatives. People think they are losing weight, which they are, but only water and, well, poop weight. What you want to lose is body fat.
The only way to lose body fat is to consume less calories than you burn in a day. To do that, find out how many calories you would burn doing absolutely nothing all day, and eat less than that. A great place to do that is on Fat Secret, a free website for daily calorie calculations. Works great.
For me, that's about 2700 calories. I went from 190 to 168 over about a year doing this. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. To lose a pound of fat, you have to be in calorie deficit. Any more than about a 500 calorie deficit per day will cause your body to lower it's metabolism to preserve body fat. After a few weeks, even at only -500 calories a day, your metabolism will slow, since your body will attempt to adjust to preserve body fat. This is why you have to cycle between calorie deficit and increased activity, even if only a mild increase.
There is no magic pill. It takes effort to lose body fat. But you can do it with relatively small changes in diet and daily activity. Over the last 6 months, I've been back in the gym lifting weights. I now cycle between a calorie surplus and deficit over a weekly schedule. I do a very hard full body workout on Sunday morning, and have a deficit through Sunday of about 1000 calories, but what I do eat is mostly protein. Monday is calorie neutral, Tuesday is a small deficit, Wednesday is another full body workout in the afternoon with another 1000 calorie loss, Thursday and Friday follow the same pattern and Saturday is a free day to eat whatever I want. On average, I am losing 500 calories a day, but still adding muscle mass and losing body fat. At this point, I am actually gaining weight and losing fat. This is when you stop using the scale, and start using a tape measure to determine progress.
Just my observations, anyway.
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