People who want to lose weight commonly, and first of all, think about reducing the amount of food they eat.

This may be quite a solution but not exactly the best there is. In fact, depending on the amount you reduce in your food intake, it may even be dangerous to one’s health.

So how does one lose weight effectively and safely? Here are some points one should consider when trying to lose weight:

1. Beware of the Crash Diets

Most people think that trimming down the calories can alone shed off their unwanted excess.

Probably this is because of the fad there is in advertising about low-calorie food products and beverages.

What people don’t know is that this could be dangerous because when they decrease their calorie intake way to below the required levels, the body begins to digest the fats.

Sounds good but it doesn’t actually. Burning fat requires a lot of energy. Since there is not much energy in the body to facilitate the metabolism of fat, it will run at a very slow pace resulting to fatigue, illness and weak immune system.

Low-calorie diet is also compensated for by the body by burning muscle.

People on this type of diet who revert back to their old eating habits end up gaining back some, if not all the weight they have shed off.

This would consist mainly of fats. And since fats have more volume per mass than muscle, they end up having the same weight as before but more bulkier.

In losing weight, one should keep in mind that they should lose excess body fats only.

However, one can try out eating small meals at more frequent intervals. This way the body will not think that it is being starved and will not store food as fat.