Look on the internet under the subjects of weight loss or losing weight and you will come across websites offering to share the secrets of weight loss with you. This is a wonderful thing that these people are prepared to give you an insight as to what you can do to lose weight. Off course many of the secrets are not free. You can pay anything from $10.00 upwards for a secret way to lose weight.

I have always thought that the very meaning of the word secret was not to share it with anyone. So why are people prepared to share a secret with you for a price? How many other people will by this secret? and how can it be a secret if so many people know what it is through purchasing it? Why don't health institutions,the medical professions,and government health sites know about these secrets? surely its in their interests that people stay healthy.

The fact is that losing weight does not come under the realm of secrecy. Anybody can lose weight if they can burn more calories than they eat. Don't fall into the trap of buying weight loss secrets, because the only thing you will be thinking about afterwards is 'why did i waste my money'.

Weight loss is all about common sense and any product that seems too good to be true, probably is. A quick fix to lasting weight loss is no fix at all. Simply because your body needs time to change. Your body is constructed in a way that it takes time for it to change. Going any faster will prevent your body getting the results that you want. This is why when people adopt an extremely low calorie diet to lose weight quickly, they find themselves losing some initial weight in the first couple of weeks, but after this any weight loss grinds to a halt.

Muscle loss will account for a large proportion of the weight that you may have lost. Muscle is an expensive commodity for you body to keep because your body requires more calories to keep hold of muscle than it does to keep fat. So when you cut back drastically on calories, your body will offload the muscle and hang onto the fat. The perfect soltion is to try and lose the fat and hold onto all the muscle weight you can; A diet low in calories will not make that happen.

There are 3 things that you must do if you want to lose weight successfully.

You will need the desire,the motivation,and the willpower to complete the actions required to reach your weight loss goals. Desire alone is not enough; You must take action to reach goals of your desires. If I desire a cup of coffee, I am not going to get one until I motivate myself to get up and fetch one. Desire means nothing unless you act on it.It's only by taking action we can achieve things.

Switching to eating healthier food is extremely important. Avoid dropping too many calories in one go. Begin replacing unhealthy foods with healthy foods. Split your calories intake over 5 or 6 meals during the day instead of feasting on couple of large meals a day. This alone will be of great benefit towards your weight loss goals. If you are going to decrease calories make sure you do not cut more than 400 calories a day from your diet. Once your body has become accustomed to this drop in calories, cut back couple of hundred more calories from your daily diet.

The benefits of exercise go far beyond just weight loss. Exercise can have a positive impact on virtually most areas of your life. Cardio is necessary for weight loss as it burns calories; do not neglect a weight training routine. Remember the idea is to keep muscle and lose fat. Weight training will enable you to keep much of your muscle you would have otherwise lost through cardio alone.

Stop thinkng of quick ways to lose weight and about the many available weight loss supplements which are dubious at best. Walking on water is a miracle; changing water to wine is a miracle. Losing weight is not a miracle. Weight loss is an achievable target for anyone if it is done with a sensible approach. Don't be tempted to buy any secrets to weight loss.