If you've heard about the Acai berry, the juice, the pills, etc that are available, then I'm sure you've asked yourself if Acai really assists in losing weight. A basic answer to this question is plain no. Not by itself. There is not a miracle remedy out there to help you lose pounds extremely fast and articles you have read that say differently are just marketing mumbo jumbo.

The only possible way to lose pounds and weight and keep it off is by maintain a reasonable and healthy diet and you really need to make a long term lifestyle change if you want to lose weight and keep it off. There are however, diet products and programs that may work short term as do some online diets that help you to detoxify and cleanse your system, but none of these are long term weight loss solutions.

Acai berries originate from Brazil and only grow in the Amazon jungle. As with most other berries, these have a lot of nutritional value and are very high in antioxidants. They also have anti-inflammatory properties that can help slim you down, but not lose weight.

You really need to have motivation and want to change yourself for the long term in order for you to approach your weight loss problem. If you do, you will definitely see results. Talk to your doctor or seek out a nutritionist to find out what you need to change in your diet and make sure that you stick to whatever they recommend. Adding light exercise such as walking even for as little as 20 minutes each day will certainly help. But you have to want to do it. Otherwise, weight loss will not happen.

One of the changes you should do it to eat more often per day. Typically, if you eat 4 to 5 small meals a day, you are taking in less calories per meal, you aren't "stuffing" yourself because you are starving, and by doing so, you are also increasing your metabolism. Eating in this way will boost your metabolism rat and therefore you end up burning calories.....and this results in weight loss.

An online diet that teaches you how to eat in this way is called the Calorie Shifting Diet. It can be found at www.calorieshiftingtheory.com