The Truth About Slimming And Exercise

Facts you should know.

- Trippayar Sahasranaman Priyaa

Every woman loves to be praised for her beautiful figure. “Oh my goodness! you have lost weight” is a sentence that could set the wings of your heart on fire, at any point of time in your life. We see young girls, women post pregnancy, women in their fifties – all resorting to crash diets, detoxifying drinks and intense cardio, just to see low numbers when they stand on the scales. A lot of people believe that low weight would mean less chance of heart disease, diabetes or even hypothyroidism. But is this all true? Is slimming the right way to keep healthy? Over years of struggling to build muscle and cut out the fat from my so-called slim body, I have come to realise that my previous notion of a healthy body was totally wrong. Here are some things that every woman needs to know about weight loss.

When you go on a crash diet and five kilos fall off your scale within a month and your dress seems leser, have you actually become fitter?

The answer is mostly, no. If your crash diet comprised fruits, and very less carbs (rice, wheat, ragi, etc) which most crash diets do, your system might have detoxified a little but there are very slim chances that you have lost the fat in your body. When starved or in need of food, the body first consumes the muscle, after which it only consumes the stored fat, and as we all know fat is very light – oil floats on water – while muscle is heavy. So, by going on your diet, you have of course, lost weight, but most likely not lost the stored fat in your body. You can still see the loose flesh around your stomach (which looks a little flatter than before the diet), and hanging bat wings beneath your arms and thighs, which are all actually fat.