If you read the packaging and watch the infomercial closely, you’ll see that the weight loss they are promising is no better than the weight loss you’d see if you simply worked on your dietary habits and daily fitness routine.  You need to lose between 2 and 3 pounds a week for your weight loss to be effective and to stay healthy.

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A lot of the weight loss supplements get around this by naming off a large number of pounds that each participant has allegedly lost over a period of a few weeks or months.  When you sit down and do the math, you’ll see that in some cases, they are barely losing a pound or a pound and a half a week.  Does that really make it worth the additional expense?  Weight loss is expensive.  Manufacturers know that we want to lose weight and that we are concerned with our body image.

They make a lot of grand promises and hope you don’t sit down and figure it all out yourself.  If you cut just 500 calories a day out of your meals, you should drop 1 pound a week with this effort alone.  If you exercise for 30 to 45 minutes a day, even if it is broken up over several different periods, you should lose at least 1 pound a week.  Right there that is two pounds a week.  This figure beats some of the markets top weight loss supplements.

My suggestion is to put your money into eating better food and working out more.  Don’t go out and buy a lot of expensive health food before you decide on an exercise plan.  Put your plan into motion and when you’ve stuck to the plan for a week, begin with the healthy eating.  Avoid eating out and processed or canned foods.  Build into a healthy lifestyle and way of life gradually.  Doing too much at once can sometimes be a setback for us.  I know you want to see instant results, but that’s not always possible.

Make sure you’re drinking plenty of water; at least six to eight glasses of water a day.  Water is vital to your health and is important to your overall weight loss.

You only need to exercise five days a week.  Keep in mind that you don’t have to do it forever, but don’t start off doing everything all at once.  We tend to get bored and discouraged quickly when this happens.  Instead, alternate what type of workout you’re doing or add new things to your workout plan as you go through the month.