1. Dieting for weight loss
This is a method that many people love to adopt for weight loss. Although it is not completely about not eating or drinking, there are still many women who skip dinner and only eat some fruit instead. This practice is highly inadvisable. If you frequently resort to starving yourself like this, it can lead to malnutrition, symptoms such as dizziness and fatigue, poor mental state, and over time, it may weaken your digestive system, potentially causing ulcers and acute gastrointestinal bleeding, while also disrupting metabolic function, ultimately making weight loss increasingly difficult.
2. Detox weight loss
Many weight loss products now tout the gimmick of “detoxification,” claiming that various herbal remedies or enzymes can help expel moisture or toxins from your body, enabling you to lose weight quickly, and that these products cause diarrhea, which they say is a normal detox reaction. Indeed, after sticking to it for a period, you might lose a few pounds and feel amazed. However, this kind of weight loss is merely “treating the symptoms, not the root cause.” Once you stop taking these products, you quickly rebound, and there are health risks. The intestines can easily develop complications such as colon pigmentation disease and persistent constipation from repeated stimulation.
3. Vegetarian and fruit diet for weight loss
Many people think that simply not eating meat or oily foods is enough to lose weight. As a result, some individuals adopt a method of only eating vegetables and fruits daily and drinking a bowl of plain rice porridge to lose weight. In reality, not all vegetarian foods or fruits are low in calories; for instance, durians and lychees can actually cause weight gain. Take apples, often praised by dieters: eating a moderate amount daily can indeed help with weight loss, but if you eat apples for every meal, the excessive sugar intake can convert into fat, accumulating in your body, leading to weight gain, and lowering metabolic function, making you age more rapidly.
4. Excessive exercise
Many people believe they gain weight due to a lack of exercise, so they start actively participating in sports. They implement a crazy exercise weight loss plan every day; however, this excessive exercise may actually lead to gaining more weight. This is because moderate exercise can promote rhythmic secretion of leptin, which helps reduce weight. But if the exercise load is excessive, while the body consumes too much energy, it can also inhibit leptin production, causing increased appetite and food intake to compensate for the excessive energy loss, thus being counterproductive. Furthermore, once you stop exercising, the weight loss results are likely to rebound. This is similar to many athletes who, once they retire and reduce their activity level, start gaining weight immediately.
5. Drinking tea for weight loss
Chinese people love drinking tea, which indeed has various benefits, one of which is weight loss. However, only drinking traditional tea has some effect under the condition that it replaces sugary beverages; drinking ordinary tea does not accelerate fat breakdown or inhibit calorie absorption. If you hope to lose weight solely by drinking tea without controlling your diet or exercising, then no matter how much tea you drink, it won’t be effective.
The above are the five most common weight loss misconceptions. I hope everyone pays attention and learns scientific weight loss methods to truly lose weight in a way that is hard to rebound.
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