Peter Paulson - Build Your Dream Body: Breaking the Lies and Myths of the Fitness Industry So You Can Build Lean, Hard Muscle and Shred Fat Using Simple and Proven Techniques That Get Results

Before learning how to start losing fat and building mass, it is important to take the blinders off your eyes. You, my friend, have been swindled and led astray by all the phony baloney myths about fat loss and diet. In fact, and this should be very clear, the only type of diet that truly works has nothing to do with dieting at all.

Myths about what to eat and what not to eat are enough to make your head spin.

For instance, there are the Paleo folks who claim that not eating a buffalo or two a week is going to keep you fat forever. Then there are the vegan folks who claim that eating that very same buffalo, or cow, or what have you, is what is leading to that unsightly belly fat.

Oh, then there is the camp that says you can eat what you want, as long as you are fanatically considering the acidity to alkaline ratio inside your body.

We fall for all kinds of weird and unnatural diets, such as the Zone Diet, Atkins Diet, and Carb Cycling, diets that require you to buy and eat only the food that the diet creators sell to you at very high prices. These diets contain just enough truth to make us think, Hey, this diet must be on to something.

Either that or we have come to believe that unless we are constantly struggling to figure out what and how we are supposed to eat, then we are not ever going to find our ideal weight.

Bulls**t!

Throw away your scales, your calorie counters, and your long lists of what you can, cannot, or must eat. The truth of the matter is that you have everything you need to know about eating the best diet right between your ears. That would be your common sense; and it is time to dust that tool off and start relying on it.

Obviously, pre-packaged, empty calorie food is not healthy for you. Neither is too much sugar. You do not need to pay exorbitant amounts of money for someone to tell you to put down the Twinkies and stop eating your weight in chips and fried foods every day. Choose healthy, fresh foods in moderate serving sizes. That is all you need to remember. Sure, we will drill that down a bit, but that is truly what you need to know.

How often you should eat is another issue that abounds in dieting myths.

Speaking of eating healthy, fresh foods, it is another myth that you should eat six meals a day, or eat small meals with snacks. You may have heard that since you are constantly filling your stomach with small quantities, it makes your metabolism work harder.

That is more nonsense.

Keeping your stomach filled throughout the day does make your system work harder, but it is working to digest food when it could be moving on to something better. Your body is built for far better use than turning into a non-stop digestion machine. There is absolutely no scientific proof that eating more meals per day helps you lose weight.

What time of day to eat? More myths...

An extremely common myth that abounds is when you should eat, with breakfast being the most important meal of the day. Now, there is some truth in eating breakfast to fuel your day and give you energy. However, most breakfast choices are of poor quality and it is better to skip breakfast than load up on empty calories.

Oh, and lying in bed at night, awake with hunger pangs? Dont buy it; there is no evidence that says that you need to stop eating late in the evening. In fact, it can be beneficial to eat later to ensure you get a better nights sleep, and to increase muscle growth and testosterone.

So now that we have cut through the crap of diet myths, lets look at some myths about losing fat and dieting that have probably been holding you back. After all, if they were not holding you back, you probably would not be reading about how to build a better body, right?