Weight-Loss Blunders

Weight loss sounds simple on the surface -- eat fewer calories, burn more calories through exercise. And when you follow this rule in moderation, you are almost guaranteed to lose weight … it's pure mathematics. However, the abundance of information we are exposed to complicates the issue enormously! Can you really eat foods that will only burn your belly fat and save your precious breast fat?! What of my metabolism? Should I exercise hard twice a week or mildly five times? Many diets sacrifice the vitamins that herbal supplements can provide along with calories. There are a lot of myths and misunderstandings concerning weight loss -- today we are looking at some of the biggies.

1. Crash diets

Crash diets do not work! Ever. Full stop. Just like you won’t find a herbal supplement that magically burns all your fat away with no additional effort, crash diets are a dearly held Western myth. Eating so few calories trains your body not to burn what it gets as quickly -- your metabolism slows down. If you resume eating normally, you stack on the pounds ultra-quick.

2. Not eating breakfast

It isn't only the potential for unhealthy mid-morning snacking that is at work sabotaging your diet here -- it is that all-important metabolism.Herbal supplements can do great things for your diet -- but don’t go too far and confuse protein shakes with breakfast!

3. Overeating snacks

It's easy to forget about the dinner leftovers you finished from other's plates, the couple of bites of a rich dessert, the M&Ms that are in your top drawer at work. But your body doesn’t forget -- it stores them all as fat.

4. Only eating meals

Of course, snacking is good for you in one way -- it acts like herbal supplements can to increase your metabolism and natural fat burning potential. Just make sure you eat mindfully -- keep a mental tally of what you eat, and where it falls on the empty calories/healthy calories continuum.

5. Low-fat and low-sugar products

Low-fat products are often extremely high in sugar or salt. Low-sugar products are often extremely high in fat and salt. There aren’t really many healthy alternatives within the selection of processed foods in our supermarkets. Besides, the lower guilt factor often inspires overeating.

6. Forgetting drink calories

Water has no calories in it. By contrast, fruit juice, milk, take-out coffees, soda and alcohol can factor enormously in your calorie equation. Take your herbal supplements for weight loss with a tall glass of hydrogen and oxygen … water!