Fitness Guide For Over 50's -

Whenever it comes to watching the rating on the scale and dreading where it would stop, wouldn’t you do just about anything to learn the secret for losing weight and keeping it off? Especially if you’re over 50.

If you’ll do just about anything, then you’re not alone. In a real sense, millions of people – usually in their 50s - are sadly overweight and trying to lose weight. But if you’re like a lot of the people we advise through our posts every day, you’re also tired and frustrated with everything you hear and read on dieting.

The rules never seems to end. If you’re over 50, you really don’t need health care professionals to convince you that losing weight is important. Because it is. But if you ever ask a health care professional, you can bet that you’ll be shown the path to sustainable weight loss.

Fortunately, most helpful professionals will take you behind the curtain of losing weight, getting in shape, achieving a comfortable bikini body, so that you can break through various myths that may be holding you back.

Sustainable Weight Loss - For Over 50's Is Possible

The thought of losing weight – for a 50 year old - can be daunting. Coming to think of it, wouldn’t it be great if someone could wave a magic wand over your head and make those extra, annoying pounds disappear? But that is not possible. Losing weight and keeping it off takes time, knowledge and effort.

That’s particularly true if you don’t have in your disposal the right methods, approaches, and motivation to help you along your journey. Never to worry, we’re here to give you good news: Luckily for you, sustainable weight loss is not hidden in the lost continent of Atlantis. This is not a myth. Armed with the right directions and an accurate roadmap, it is possible to avoid the false turns and misconceptions (like: do this and put off your weight forever, cut down on your favorite food, whatever it is, is making you overweight, don’t eat snacks with a certain amount of sugar, the ‘don’t’ out there can seem endless, right?) that are very common in our world today.

Hearing firsthand the testimonials of people that had to lose – and keep off – their weight, you’ll be encouraged that you can even enjoy the experience – the whole process of losing weight, keeping it off and feeling good – even in your 50s - in that bikini body that’s just right for you. The whole key to being empowered is for you to be armed with the facts, to be able to separate weight loss facts from diet myths. Given a solid foundation, it is possible to tackle any challenge and successfully navigate any future traps that may come your way.

Our goal, through this post, is to present you with the science behind the myths that you hear every day, then further help you interpret how you can make that science – however true or false, you’ll be armed anyway - work for you.

Myths Anyone Below Or Above 50 Must Confront About Weight Loss

Without question, myths are a part of every society and culture. Interestingly, they help explain common experiences that are mysterious, frightening, or difﬁcult to understand using our senses. In time immemorial, Ancient civilizations used myths to explain aspects of the world that they could not comprehend easily. Joseph Campbell, Speaker and Author of the book ‘The Power of Myth’, explains that we need myths to survive, explain and understand our very existence.

Don’t take this lightly, but myths are powerful. They can inspire us to attain great heights. But they can also become traps when truth is masked within them. If you go beyond the kernel of truth that forms the basis of a myth and you unknowingly believe that every aspect of the myth is true, you can become paralyzed into complacency.

Because to you, the myth seemingly explains everything. Although you can’t prove it. In our culture, many popular weight-loss methods can seem attractive, promising and persuasive. Who hasn’t tried at least a few of the latest and greatest weight- loss plans out there? For the uninformed, these methods are appealing because they are based on a believable myth, a convincing scientiﬁc explanation, and a fantastic promise: the pitch is that if you buy into the myth, you’ll lose weight quickly, in a short time.

Perhaps you believed the myth that simply by cutting back on fat you could lose weight permanently. Maybe you believed the myth that cutting out most carbohydrates would magically melt away your extra fat and pounds. Perhaps you subscribed to the common myth that if you simply begin exercising more, your weight would come off. We wish we could tell you that these myths were true, but they aren’t. While each has some kernels of truth, they’re missing quite a bit as well.

That’s the point of this post, we’ll ﬁll you in on the whole story. Myths have the power to keep you riding the weight-loss roller coaster or prevent you from trying again, and again if a method fails. That is why it is so important to pull out the kernel of truth and discard the rest. Until you separate the truth from a myth, you won’t achieve your goal of sustainable weight loss, and yes even at or above 50. Stop in your local bookstore, browse online, or watch a short TV ad and you will quickly see that weight-loss myths are very abundant.

Similarly, one popular myth out there states that carrying a FEW extra pounds around doesn’t really have an impact on your health. Nothing could be further from the truth. This myth has a kernel of truth: carrying around a few extra pounds is not as risky as carrying around a lot of extra pounds. But the whole truth is that even gaining small amounts of weight as the years go by has its health risk.

Today, an even more widespread but fading myth is that a low-carbohydrate diet magically melts away pounds and is the ultimate answer to weight loss. Once again, there is an element of truth to this myth. Many people, usually in their late 40s and early 50s, eat overly large portions of carbohydrates like pasta and bread, as well as too many foods with added sugars and highly processed ﬂour.

This type of eating can contribute to weight gain in very signiﬁcant ways. Furthermore, carbohydrate foods supply a majority of our calories. So cutting back on empty calories from added sugar and highly processed ﬂour can help you lose weight as long as you don’t ﬁll your diet with low-carbohydrate, calorie-rich foods. Or what about the common myth that all you need to do is go to the gym and workout to lose weight?

Without doubt, there is a kernel of truth to the relationship between regular exercise and weight loss. But individuals who think that they can lose weight simply by increasing their exercise program and not controlling their food intake are almost always embarking on a futile journey.

Chances are, you’ve heard the same statistic over and over again. And if it’s true that 95% of diets end in failure, it’s reasonable to conclude that trying to lose weight is not worth the effort. Nobody is going to tell you that it is easy to achieve weight loss that lasts. But it is possible. The comforting reality is that you have about as great a chance of losing weight and keeping it off as you do of winning a lottery.

This is just a simple fact of life. Everybody knows it. A single kernel of truth to hang unto is that no single weight-loss method available today can help every overweight or obese person get down to an ideal weight and stay there forever. It’s my hope that this post shows you that there is no one-size-ﬁts-all approach to weight loss. Every person needs a slightly different approach.