Weight Loss Facts
1. Not eating breakfast makes you fat.
2. Everyone has time to fit in some sort of exercise
3. Buying healthy foods is a lot cheaper than buying new clothes because your old ones are too tight.
4. Cooking at home is way cheaper than stopping for fast food because let’s face it, what overweight person only eats from the dollar menu?
5. Home cooked food tastes so much better than anything from a fast food place.
6. It is possible to lose weight and eat out.
7. It is possible to lose weight and eat dessert.
8. Weight loss is not magic.
9. There is no pill, no drink, no elixir that will help you "burn fat" or lose weight.
10. There is only one way to lose weight – food (energy) in must be less than energy out
11. Muscle does NOT "weigh more than fat". One pound of butter weighs the same as one pound of sugar. I have given this explanation before. Muscle is denser than fat, meaning, tighter. Fat is fluffy. Think about baking for a second. Have you ever had a recipe tell you to "beat butter until fluffy". Ever seen a recipe that does that with a sirloin steak? Better still, put a pound of nails on a scale and a pound of feathers. That is the difference between fat and muscle. As you work out, you build muscle, which can show up on the scale as making you heavier. The more muscle, the heavier you can be, but the leaner your body will look.
12. You cannot build muscle without exercise
13. If you diet heavily and do not exercise, you can actually lose muscle rather than fat
14. It is not necessary to begin an exercise routine that takes four hours a day. You can get all the exercise you need TO START in 30 minutes.
15. Cardio is imperative to losing weight.
16. Artificial sweeteners are NOT good for losing weight.
17. One gallon of "sweet" tea has about 1548 calories (if made with 2 cups of sugar per gallon. This means that one cup of "sweet" tea has about 100 calories. The average glass purchased at McDonald’s is the 32 ounce size, which is four servings. That means the average order of sweet tea at McDonald’s is about 400 calories. Drinking three orders of sweet tea per day will give you 1200 calories per day. Just in tea. That doesn’t count food.
18. It is not cheaper to eat fast-food than it is to make it at home AND you can make fast food that tastes better than fast food at home (Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-dyn/content/article/200
9/09/15/AR2009091500749.html )
19. There is no such thing as a family obesity gene.
20. Just because your parents and grandparents suffered from heart disease, does not mean you can do "nothing about it"
21. Just because you take cholesterol and high blood pressure medicine does not mean you can still eat crap.
22. Losing weight is not easy.
23. You can never stop being aware of what you put in your mouth.
24. I have consistently lost a half pound a week and did so even though I drank a few beers on the weekend.
25. Pizza and cookies do not make you fat. Eating pizza and cookies with no regard to portion sizes makes you fat.
26. Excuses make you and keep you fat.
27. The scale just shows you a number. It does not report energy level, self-esteem, or built-up muscle. It shows pounds. Period.
28. The scale is not some evil spirit whose sole purpose in life is to make you have a bad day. It’s a tool to use to gauge progress.
29. Take your measurements when you do an official weigh-in. You will often find you may not have lost weight but have lost inches. This is due to that muscle vs fat thing discussed in #11.
30. If your child is 150 pounds in kindergarten, you need to step up and be a parent.
31. Salads can make you fat.
32. Not eating enough can be dangerous.
33. No one should eat less than 1200 calories per day.
34. If you are telling yourself that if you eat more than 1200 calories, you will gain weight, you are lying to yourself.
35. Calories are not the only nutrition fact you need to watch when trying to lose weight. Fat, carbs, sodium, potassium, protein all have a hand in successful weight los.
36. Carbs are not the anti-Christ.
37. Fat is not the anti-Christ.
38. Deprivation leads to failed weight loss plans
39. Moderation leads to success.
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