There are so many myths surrounding weight loss that you could spend years wasting your time, money, and negatively affecting your health (and I did) in the process!

Before you spend your time and money trying to lose weight, read this first! It will save you not only time and money but frustration and the feeling you should just give up and accept that you'll never be at a healthy weight or live a healthy life. It's not true!

You CAN get healthy, just make sure you aren't relying on one of these myths to do so!

These are 17 of the most popular weight loss myths and why they don't work.