Why Say No To Starvation diets?
Why are starvation diets so unsuccessful in the long term? Because they are starvation diets. You don’t have to starve in order to lose weight. Actually, you shouldn’t. In this article we will take a look at why these mainstream reduction diets don’t work.
First of all, which diet is starvation diet? Any diet that suggests eating very small portions of food with very little calories. These diets are based on the idea that burning more calories than you consume will results in weight loss. This idea is, of course, basically correct, but because of how our bodies work, they won’t produce long term results.
Today, the numbers of overweight and obese people are still increasing. In U.S., there is more than 120 million adults that are overweight, 60 million are obese, and 9 million severely obese. Many of them did and still do try to lose weight. Approximately 95% of people who follow the mainstream low calorie, low fat, and low carb diets fail.
In order to understand why this happens, we must take a look at how our bodies cope with extreme calorie deficits that traditional diets impose. You may think you’re being smart to starve in order to lose weight, but your body is smarter than you. It has mechanisms that allow it to survive on very little energy when you are starving. We say that the body goes into a so called starvation mode.
Starvation mode is a response to a decreased calorie intake. It lowers your metabolic rate, giving you the ability to more efficiently store energy on less food. In other words, every last scrap of energy (calories) that is not burned, will be stored and made available for later use. So now you have a talent to get fatter on less food. Not very productive weight loss technique.
What do you think happens, when you stop dieting and start eating normally again? You will gain weight faster than you ever thought possible. In the end, you will weigh more than you did before you start your starvation diet.
Starvation diets are cruel, short sighted, and could lead to various health problems. There are much better and more effective ways to deal with weight issues. The bottom line, starvation is not the way to go.
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