7 Reasons Why Low Calorie Diets Don't Work

Reduce Fat, the true cost of low calorie diets

Did you know you have to eat to lose weight? You need calories to burn calories or your metabolism will slow down (metabolism is the rate your body burns calories). Low calorie diets cause many people to be MAL-nourished, even obese people. You also need to detox for healthy weight and fat loss. Living on processed foods will make the body toxic and difficult if not impossible to digest essential nutrients. If you don’t get nutrients you get hungry, if you get hungry you eat more, if you eat more you won’t lose weight and fat.

Taking steps with food choices will reduce fat and is the only way to help build health and achieve your optimum weight. Following are consequences associated with skipping meals and not eating enough calories.

1. You don’t learn anything from dieting. All you learn is how to imprison yourself for months and even years. Nutrition is a lifestyle that needs to be taught so it can be applied for a lifetime!
2. You increase the number of fat storing enzymes each time you diet.
3. You decrease the number of fat burning enzymes each time you diet and create an increase in the size of fat cells.
4. You decrease lean body mass and basal metabolic rate. Each diet makes it harder to restore normal basal metabolic rate.
5. You create insulin and blood sugar handling problems, which most of the time creates fat storage and hypoglycemic symptoms = cravings!
6. With dieting which is a stress, more cortisol is released. When cortisol goes up, insulin goes up to protect the body. Both of these are converted to glucose and into fat = fat storing hormones.
7. Most people decrease the amount of good fat when dieting. Fat deficiency causes fat cravings, the kinds of fat you find in junk food.

The 7 reasons above why not to starve to achieve weight and fat loss are pretty scary. You can’t influence Mother Nature, in other words no matter how hard you try to drop a dress size or transform the way you look you can’t do it by reducing calories because evolution didn’t build us this way.

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