Eating junk food will make you gain weight: It is fine to fit some indulgence into your diet, providing a good percentage of your diet is good, healthy food. The most important aspect of weight change is overall calorie intake. If your calories in are greater than your calories out then weight will start to increase.

Eating six small meals a day will boost your metabolism: There is no direct link in fat loss with different meal frequencies when calories are consumed.

You'll lose muscle mass if you don't consume protein within 30 minutes of your session: You don't need to stress about this if you are consuming enough protein throughout your day.

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