You know I often see people say, gush I started eating less than 800 calories a day and now I am not loosing any weight. Let me tell you why low calorie diet plans do not work and why those people stop losing pounds after some time.
The simple fact is that they slowed down their metabolism! First off all, when you are eating very little food you are feeling undernourished and most likely sick. You are tired and most likely have lots of headaches!
People just need to get it into their head that in order for you to lose weight you have to eat the right food!
Bear with me for a second here.
On average one large apple has around 100 calories. If you eat 20 apples will you gain the weight? Of course not! Just recently one of the guest on the Oprah show said how you need to eat 9 lb of fruits and veggies a day to lose weight. Now you may wonder how can that be?
Well, now days, fruits and veggies have a modern term called negative calorie foods. This does not mean that they don’t get you calories, actually you eat more calories but it is calories that don’t have saturated fat so you will not gain the weight.
Now having said all of it, you have to add protein and exercise to your diet! There are two reason for this.
- One is that protein is good for you and will keep you satisfied longer.
- Second is the fact that when you exercise and eating protein, you are building muscle.
Now this automatically helps you with the toning of your body, but in the long run, muscle requires more calories to maintain, making you stay trim longer or in other words you have a lot less chances of gaining the weight back.
It is important to mention as well that when that happens, you are also increasing your metabolism. When your metabolism is fast, you are not going to gain the weight unless you are overeating.
Compared to the low calorie diet plans. When you are starving you basically only lose the water weight. In addition to this, you are not nourishing yourself enough, creating a bigger health risk for yourself.
And worse of all, all your hard work and you actually slow down your metabolism. The so called weight that you lost, you are going to gain back even faster than you lost it.
Do what did you do than, nothing and that is why low calorie diet plans do not work.
