INTRODUCTION
There is an intermingling of myths and facts when it comes to matters of nutrition and weight loss, so much that only a few individuals are truly clear about what it takes to lose weight effectively. This isn’t so hard to fathom when you consider the fact that eating a healthy, balanced meal is not something we are taught from an early age. Usually, people are left to figure it out on their own, choosing what they’d eat as they please. Also, most people aren’t aware of how much better they would look and feel if they refused to feed themselves accidentally and instead, begun to recreate themselves intentionally. However, when you have a firm understanding of the kind of mistakes commonly made by people as regards weight loss and healthy eating, you would be able to make suitable adjustments in your own diet and thus, maintain your ideal body weight without struggling.
Without going too far, one of these extremely common assertions is that by eating right and engaging in exercise, you’ll live a healthy life. Is this really true?
Eat right and exercise. However if it were that simple, you would not get 100 different answers from 100 different experts on how to do it and you certainly would not get bombarded by the media on the million and one ways to lose weight. This is so because if the path to weight loss were that simple, everyone would be engaging in one singular routine, without having to conduct ‘experiments’ on the kind of diets that work, or the kind of exercise that works. Several of these myths, although not scientifically based, have been around for so long that it already seems like there is a ring of truth to it and unless the demerits of these myths are clearly spelt out, they would keep drawing people back into nutrition mistakes and gaining weight.
. In other words, unless they are eliminated, they rear their ugly heads when you least expect them to, threatening to destroy one’s immense efforts to build a stronger, leaner and more energetic body.
This is why I decided to save you some time by sieving through some of the misleading myths that are out there, replacing these myths with facts and setting you back on the right track.