The Truth about Dieting

1. False: Calories assimilated after 8 o’clock turn into fat.
True: If we eat more calories than our body can burn, they turn into fat. Yet, this has nothing to do with the time we eat.
2. False: If you want a diet to be effective, it must necessarily mean not eating enough.
True: Don’t starve! Skipping meals can only cause nausea and anemia and it also brings about depression. Depression will make you turn to junk-food, which is totally inappropriate if you want to lose weight.
3. False: Foods rich in proteins and containing few carbohydrates help you lose weight more easily.
True: People who reduced drastically the daily quantity of carbohydrates to lose weight actually put on more weight when the diet stopped. The secret is in the calories and the balance between what you eat and what you can burn.
4. False: By drinking a lot of water you will lose a lot of weight.
True: Water fills your stomach but it can never substitute food and, more importantly, it will never burn fat by itself. Drinking too much water and not getting enough food means starving so…go back to paragraph 2!
5. False: When you are on a diet you must never drink juice!
True: Natural juice from fresh fruit is not dangerous; it ‘translates’ as vitamins!
6. False: Practicing sports on an empty stomach helps you burn more calories.
True: Physical exercise burns the fat supply but also that of carbohydrates which was assimilated with your meal. If you skip the meal before training, your body will not have the necessary quantity of carbohydrates that need to be burnt while doing the exercises, so the body will start consuming your muscle energy which will lead to bad metabolism.
A good meal 3 hours before or a snack 1 hour before your daily exercises is recommendable.