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Millions of people a year seek out and buy diets and/or exercise programs that claim to deliver extreme weight loss in a very short period of time. Most of these people, you may be one of them or know someone like this, gain the weight back very quickly after they stop their “diet” or exercise program and are right back where they started in the beginning. So what is the truth about weight loss and how are you going to keep the pounds off after working so hard to lose them? An entire website could be dedicated to answering this question, so here only a few points we want to make about extremely fast weight loss.

First, there is no such thing about spot reduction weight loss. A lot of people aren’t happy with a certain area of their body and start a diet or exercise program or buy an exercise machine to target that area for weight loss. How often have you heard that by working certain muscles the fat surrounding those muscles will be the first to disappear? This is completely false. Cedric Bryant, chief exercise physiologist for the American Council on Exercise, says this about spot reduction: “This is a myth, pure and simple. No matter how much exercise you do for a specific region of the body, it’s physiologically impossible to lose body fat in a targeted area. Fat is lost or gained throughout the entire the body. But the last area where people tend to lose it from is the areas where they gain it first. So for most men, the abdominal region is the most difficult area to trim, while in women, the hips, buttocks, and thighs are the trouble spots.” So if you’ve got some extra flab on your stomach, don’t go thinking that doing 100 sit-ups a day is going to make that fat go away. Continue reading →