Slimming Myths

• Your body doesnt need any fat
• Fast food is responsible for most of our fat problems
• Dieting has to be hard
• Hunger is primarily dictated by what is happening in your stomach
• The biggest battle in dieting is with your willpower
• As long as food is low-fat, it's not going to make you fat
• Fat turns to fat, protein turns to muscle and carbs turn to energy
• The fullness of your stomach is what tells you to stop eating
• Sugar gives you an instant high to help combat hunger
• Your stomach is the place where you store your belly fat
• Diets are most about calorie control
• Your brain is the only part of your body that reacts emotionally to food
• This people are automatically healthier than fat people
• A fat is a fat is a fat.  All fat is equally damaging
• Your ideal blood pressure is anythin less than 140/90
• Its your habits that entirely to blame for fatness
• Your body burns most of its activities through activity
• You can't adjust your "slow metabolism"
• Lifting weights will make you bulky
• The best exercise for losing fat is cardiovascular training
• You need weights to build muscle
• Binge eating is trigerred mainly by extreme hunger
• Cravings are directed by taste buds
• The best way to resist temptation is with willpower
• The diet would work if only you had the willpower of a thin person
• It is better to have dieted and failed than to have never dieted at all
• You can't make mistakes when you're dieting