subject: Health Tips For Improved Weight Loss [print this page] This article is going to help you lose weight fast. If you have been encountering difficulty in losing weight then you need to follow the concepts which will be explained in this article. You can be able to achieve fast weight loss for the summer. If you are overweight you tend to become very self conscience about your appearance. That is the more reason why you need to lose weight because it will also help you boost your self confidence. If you do not like the way your body looks you are more likely to suffer from psychological issues such as low self esteem, low self confidence which could lead to severe depression. Therefore when you lose weight you not only manage to improve your body physique but in the process you also improve your psychological health as well.
Being overweight does not only help you increase your psychological health but your general health is also improved. The presence of a lot of body fat has been known to lead to various health complications such as high blood pressure, heart ailments, and high cholesterol levels. All this conditions can greatly affect your sense of well being. If you are overweight the following conditions are the more reasons why you need to lose weight.
In order to lose weight fast you should not go on fad diets. Fad diets usually recommend that you drastically reduce your carbohydrate intake. As soon as you reduce your calorie intake drastically you will force your body to go into starvation mode. When the body is in starvation mode it will start to conserve energy and in order to do this it will start burning muscles instead of body fat. This will cause the percentage of your body muscles to deplete. As a result of the depletion of body muscles your body metabolism is going to slow down. If your metabolism slows down you will not be able to burn a lot of calories and this will make you gain weight. Fad diets therefore will make you gain weight because of two reasons the first on being it compromises your body metabolism and the second reason is that it increases your food cravings.
In order to prevent your body from going into starvation mode you should take a diet which is based on a balanced nutrition. A balanced diet should contain carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins. Your diet should however not contain plenty of carbohydrates because they contain a lot of calories which will be converted and stored as fat by the body. However the reduction in carbohydrates should be coupled with an increase in proteins in your diet. Proteins are the building blocks of muscles and in order to lose weight you need to increase your lean body muscles. Lean body muscles lead to an increase in your body metabolism and this will make you burn more calories.
You need to lift weights as well so that you increase your lean body muscles as well as perform aerobic exercises so that you can rev up your body metabolism and burn more calories.
