Is smoking good or bad? Almost all people will unanimously agree that smoking is bad, because it is bad indeed! But even certain ‘bad’ things have their advantages, and smoking is no exception in this regard. I know you will find it hard to believe, but if you are an overweight person then smoking can indeed help you a lot! Smoking will help you lose weight by speeding up your body’s metabolism. In this article I will explore the relationship between smoking and weight loss even further.
While smoking can indeed help you lose weight, you should never smoke because it will do more harm than good to your body. Cigarettes contain a harmful substance called Nicotine which fills up the lungs with dangerous substances such as poisons and tar. Smoking chokes a person’s lungs to such an extent that he finds it difficult to breathe properly. If not discontinued in time, smoking can even cause lung cancer.
As you can see, the disadvantages of smoking far outweigh its advantages, and for this reason you should definitely not look forward to smoking as an available weight loss option! Remember that there are better ways to lose weight, such as diet and exercise. Smoking may give you some temporary benefits but the destruction in causes to your body and health in the long run doesn’t make it worth the trouble.
Some people don’t want to quit smoking, not just because they are addicted, but because they fear that if they ever quit smoking, they will gain a lot of weight. Well, nothing could be further from the truth! Very few people ever gain weight after they quit smoking, so you don’t need to worry on that front.
Besides, you won’t gain weight until a few months after you have discontinued smoking and that too, if you follow an unhealthy lifestyle by eating junk and fatty foods and sit on your couch through the day, watching your favorite television program. If you do proper exercises such as aerobics, cardio, weight lifting and resistance training, as well as follow a healthy diet plan consisting of raw vegetables and fruits, you won’t have to worry about weight gain even if you quit smoking! If you have been smoking in order to lose weight, I hope this article has succeeded on encouraging you to discontinue the same and focus on healthier weight loss options that won’t harm your body in any way. Remember that smoking will not only damage your health beyond repair, but can even prove to be fatal for you!
If you read health magazines regularly, you are sure to come across a lot of tips regarding to weight loss. Some of these tips actually work, and others don’t. The ones that generally don’t work are those that suggest fad diets, weight loss supplements and pills. The tips that actually work for everybody are always simple: that of diet and exercise. However, the weight loss industry is ridden with myths and misleading information, and people often tend to twist the truths, either because of their own advantage or out of plain ignorance. In this article I will discuss three such weight loss myths.
1. Myth#1: Spot reduction of fat is possible: Not at all true, and I am sure that any weight loss expert will unanimously agree to this. You cannot force your body to spot reduce your fat under any circumstances, no matter what type of workouts you do. If you do only crunches and leg lifts frequently in the hope of reducing belly fat, you will notice that instead of reducing your belly fat, you will reduce the muscle mass that resides beneath the abdomen. For this reason, your focus should not be on crunches and leg lifts alone; you should also follow a healthy diet that would speed up your metabolic rate and help you burn fat fast!
2. Myth#2: A drastic cut down on calorie intake reduces your body fat: This myth has pushed many a person on the brink of crash dieting. People take to crash dieting in the hope of shedding those extra pounds, least realizing that crash dieting harm their bodies instead of helping them. As a matter of fact, when you starve or fast, your body realizes that you are going to kill it and then it goes into the starvation mode. While in starvation mode, your body slows down your metabolic rate and burns your muscles (instead of fat, which is kept in reserve) for producing energy. This way, you don’t lose much fat at all; if anything, you lose your valuable muscles. And once you return to your normal diet, you will gain extra weight!
3. Myth#3: Cardio exercises alone will help you lose weight: While it is true that cardio exercises can help you lose fat, it is not true that this is the only type of weight loss exercises available; don’t forget the aerobics. As a matter of fact, the amount of fat you will lose doing either cardio or aerobics is almost same. On the other hand, weight lifting is better than both cardio and aerobics, in that it not only helps you burn fat during the workout, but even after that!
I sincerely hope that this article has successfully brought the real weight loss truths before you!
