Quick Ways to Lose Weight or Health Risks?

In a culture obsessed with speed and efficiency and with a powerful emphasis on instant gratification, quick ways to lose weight are always in high demand.  The hidden underside of this is that the quick ways should be easy ways to lose weight.  It's almost a cultural motto - fast and easy.

Losing weight doesn't have to be impossibly difficult despite how it sometime seems. Quick is a relative term, however.  The reality is that anything that profoundly affects your body is likely to be dangerous - and extremely rapid weight loss is a very serious change no matter how it is accomplished.  The methods themselves are likely to be dangerous - or at least risky - for instance, surgery.  Powerful industrial chemicals (i.e. prescription medications) - even certain herbal remedies for weight loss which should not , in fact, be used for weight loss, may have drastic effects on your body (including death).

Since it took time to put on the weight, you need to give yourself time to take it off - especially if you want to keep it off.  There are a number of herbal remedies that can assist you - and make the process easier.  There are, speaking simply, really only 3 types of herbal remedies you may want to consider.  

First are appetite suppressants.  If you aren't hungry, it's a lot easier not to eat, right? And if you eat less at the same activity level, you will lose weight.  Hoodia gordonii weight loss remedies fall into this category and are available in pill and liquid form.  Concentrated liquid extract of hoodia gordonii may be the quickest acting and useful not only on an ongoing basis but also to suppress sudden hunger. You can also check out our on-site Hoodia Gordonii Plus Store here: Hoodia Gordonii Plus 

Second are fat blockers.  Proactol is a 100% organic natural fat blocker.  Fat blockers will actually prevent the body from metabolizing some percentage of the fats you eat. They may also suppress your appetite somewhat or leave you with feeling of being full over a longer period than normal. By reducing the amount of fat used by your body, you are essentially cutting your caloric intake.

Third are fat burners of various kinds.  This is really the problem category because most of these compounds are stimulants and increase your body's metabolism.  Ephedra products did this but with nasty and dangerous side effects.  Ma Huang (ephedra) has been used in traditional Chinese Medicine for some 4 or 5 thousand years. A potent herbal medicinal resource, it is NOT USED FOR WEIGHT LOSS in Chinese medicine. No reputable herbal medicinalist would prescribe ma huang for weight loss.  Burners that do not overstimulate the body (such as a product with green tea extract) may be combined to provide a safe and effective product.  

This is only a part of a complete approach to ways to lose weight.  You are going to have to make some changes in your life style and normal daily diet (not your weight loss diet, but what you are going to eat to keep the weight from coming back).  A fat loss diet can be helpful and can provide useful clues to how to alter your post weight loss diet. Meal planning is important as a part of the diet (getting bored with your diet can be very bad) and for the rest of your life.  There is an excellent piece of software available that is well designed and can be used for meal planning for diets, after the diet and even (yes, some people need this) for weight gain diets.  

The one thing that's not going to happen  (except maybe with surgery) is extremely rapid weight loss.  Most diets that show initial large losses are largely reflecting water loss.  Such losses are not sustainable for very long.  As fat is converted to energy and lost, water is lost also.  So for people who are very overweight fairly large initial losses can occur.  But for real permanent weight loss you need to make some changes in how you eat and live. And that is a more real, if slower process. 

References:

1. Chitosan and Other Fat Blockers from BBC

2. Wikipedia on Ephedra

3. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, N.I.H. about ephedra