Diet and Exercise Myths!

So many people try diet after diet and get discouraged when they don’t make great progress, and often give up. Many times this is because of people being taken in by diet and exercise myths that not only don’t lead to weight loss and strength, but can be outright unhealthy!


Fat doesn’t make you fat: So many people think that fat in your food turns directly into fat on your body. This is not true! The problem people have is the amount of fat they consume. Protein and carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram, while fat contains 9 calories per gram. With all this extra energy packed into fat it is much easier to over eat, which is actually what makes you fat. Some fats actually help you lose weight, such as omega 3 fatty acids (the fats that come from such sources as flax seeds and their oil, as well as fatty fish like tuna and salmon). You can get these in most vitamin sections in the form of salmon or cod liver oil (don’t worry, if you take it with food you won’t taste it!).

Starving yourself doesn’t work!: When your body thinks its starving (be it because you cut your calories to diet far too quickly, or because you are just eating way too little) it cuts down your base metabolism (the amount of calories you burn just by being alive and not exercising). You can seriously sabotage your ability to lose weight if you eat too little.

You cannot spot tone: You will not lose your stomach fat by just doing crunches. You won’t see your abs over 10% body fat and that’s really about all there is to it. You can train specific muscles and areas on your body, which will help build your muscles, and there by raise your metabolism, but you need to lower your body fat % to actually see it. This means proper diet and exercise.

You need fats: On top of people thinking eating fat makes you overweight, many think it’s unhealthy and unnecessary. This is not true! In fact our body needs fat for a number of vital functions including maintaining our nerve system. If you maintain a no-fat diet for too long your body will stop working! You still need to limit your fats so you don’t get too many calories and you should limit saturated and trans-fat while trying to get mostly poly and mono-unsaturated fats (healthy fats!).

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