Fat doesn’t make you fat …
This is the first of the weight loss myths. Unless it is combined with carbs. Low fat products will actually thwart your weight loss attempts.
Exercise doesn’t help much with weight loss
As it makes you hungrier. It’s still very beneficial for health and body composition though! But the adage, “You can’t outrun a bad diet” is true after all.
Eating more frequently may make you fatter rather than thinner
Eating and metabolising food takes energy, and as such the motivation for eating more frequently was based on keepin the body burning more all the time. But it turns out that the fat storing signals related to constantly eating, outweight the slight increase in energy burning which it elicits.
All calories are NOT created equal
Quick steps to a healthy body weight to counteract weight loss myths
Eat real (unprocessed) food
Limit carbs. Particularly sugar and refined carbs.
Avoid refined factory-produced vegetable and seed oils. (poly-unsaturated fatty acids)
Fill up on unprocessed animal proteins and fats, as well as non-starchy (above the ground) vegetables.
Eat less frequently.
Summary and Solution
To turn the tide on the scourge of the obesity epidemic, we need to dig deep below the surface and get back to our roots. Say no to modern factory-produced foods, that are full of refined carbohydrates. Rather eat what humans were made to eat, what our great, great, great grandparents ate before the world became fat and sick.
Credits:
Text – Tamzyn Murphy RD, MSc
Image – Jonathan Borba