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Weight Loss myth #1: Following weight loss advice

Now I know that what I'm about to say goes against conventional 'wisdom' - but it's putting the cart before the horse to simply follow some weight loss now plan just to get thin. 101 weight loss tips are a dime a dozen! But be careful that the tips you're following aren't the ones that erode your healthy and also lead to an unwanted weight gain story!

As Dr. Bob Schwartz says in his book, Diets don't work: there are very few diets that work.

If your definition of 'works' is weight loss at any cost - then sure all diet products 'work'. Check out this list of attributes that a diet has to achieve for it to have qualified as 'what works' in my book!

But you can't just focus on losing weight. For something to really work, we need to look for methods that result in healthy minds as well as healthy bodies. I'm talking about psychological health and mental well-being as well. Most weight loss advice doesn't even touch on those.

Strive not to fall for weight loss myths

It's easier than you think to follow so-called 'easy weight loss now plans' (um...not that there's much easy about restricting and depriving yourself in my book) and be less healthy both mentally and physically than before you started the diet.

You can lose 10 pounds on those weight loss myth #8. This diet myth discussed how following weight loss advice can change your body composition in way that that isn't good for your health, diet or fitness. But please hear this before you run me off planet earth as some kind of wacko for telling you not to turn to dieting.

All I'm saying is that if you're 100% convinced you really do need to lose weight then the best weight loss program is one that makes weightloss a side effect of gaining a healthy mind and body and not the other way around. The focus always needs to on doing 'what is healthy' rather than just 'what loses weight'.

Diet Pills aren't a healthy mind and body solution

Much weight loss advice from diet pill companies promise 'easy weight loss'. What they don't tell you is that they also have powerful ingredients in them like psuedo-ephedrine which affects your sympathetic nervous system and can play havoc with the health of your mind and body.

This is why they aren't a healthy mind and body solution. From first hand experience I know they have some pretty heinous side effects. When I was hooked on diet pills my heart and thoughts raced , I was sweaty and couldn't sleep. And that was just what I could notice, what about what was really going on in my cells that I couldn't see?

Be sceptical about weight loss advice that comes from a company that relies on big profits from it's 'weight loss NOW!' ideas that sound ultra miraculous.

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We are seeing drug companies being sued in record numbers because so-called cures, instead of leading to a healthy mind and body are causing other diseases and even death. And these diet pills, powders and products are also expensive. And .... most importantly.......do you really want to put some of their unhealthy ingredients into your body?

I predict that we haven't even begun to realize quite how high is the real cost of weight loss pills, the cost not immediately visible. And I'm not just talking about the money I spent. I shudder to think what harm I managed to do to my mind and body health during my 10 years of diet pill addiction.

And don't be fooled by weight loss advice that advertises "safe weight loss pills" either. Who knows whats really safe? The drugs that are now being withdrawn once upon a time had controlled studies done and had to go through FDA approval.

That drug companies are being sued shows us that even FDA approval didn't mean they were healthy for minds and bodies. Don't take them - they are harmful. (There may be a reason you really need them - please consult with your own medical professional)

In his CD series, The Wisdom of our Cells, Dr. Bruce Lipton quotes research finding that medicine is one the leading causes of death in the USA. People are dying from pills and other so-called medical treatment – it’s lethal.

And then there is another whole though provoking argument to be put forwards by the law of attraction, the secret messages of water, our molecules of emotions and quantum field healing.

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