Statistics show that 95% of people who do manage to lose weight regain it – at times more than what they had lost – just within a few months. So why is it that 95% people fail diets?
It’s actually the other way around. 95% of diets fail people. The problem is in those diets that we often look out for in search of weight loss. Here are the 4 things you should NOT do to lose weight:
1. Do not follow diets
The problem with diets is that they ask you to eat only one thing or totally avoid some other thing. Once you get on a diet, you start looking at food in isolation v/s eating wholesome. For e.g: A Keto diet that asks you to eat protein and fats but no carbs i.e. no roti, thepla, rice, bhakri etc. In the science of biochemistry, it is often repeated that “fats burn in the flame of carbohydrates” which means that fats are burnt or utilised for energy in the presence of carbohydrates. So, for fat loss, carbs are extremely important.
This story is from the FEBRUARY 2019 edition of Health & Nutrition.
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