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Is That Low Calorie Diet Setting You Up To Fail At Losing Weight?

By: Cory Jean Home | Health-and-Fitness | Weight-Loss


It is a scientific fact that a low calorie diet will slow down your metabolism and cause you to fail in your attempt to lose weight. That’s right! This is a scientific fact that you will not be able to avoid if you are thinking of going on a low calorie diet in an attempt to lose weight.

Think about this for a minuteâ€.have you ever been on a low calorie diet and everything is moving along wonderfully. You are losing weight each week and then suddenly you can’t seem to make the scale budge.

What is actually happening is that your body is adjusting your metabolism to conserve fat and it begins to burn muscle as a response to the sudden drop in caloric intake in your diet. As the muscle is broken down for energy nitrogen is produced in the body. In an attempt to cleanse the body of this nitrogen, cells release water and it may seem that you are continuing to lose weight.

Soon the body slows your metabolism down to a degree that one might see in a person who is suffering from starvation as it conserves fat for these lean days that it is seeing. Most people become frustrated when they don’t continue to lose weight and eventually throw in the towel and go off the diet.

This is when the weight all comes back and usually with a vengeance as your body, with it’s super slow metabolism, packs on the pounds due to this self imposed starvation that it has been living through.

As you can see, this is a great recipe to follow if you wish to actually gain weight in the long run. Starve the body for a while so your metabolism slows way down and then feed it all the high calorie foods that you have been denying it for so long and your body will naturally pack on the pounds!

But you’re trying to LOSE weight, right? So we need to speed up your metabolism. Does that make sense now? This is the reason why there are people that can eat whatever they want and not gain any weight.

If you’re thinking that you are stuck with the metabolism that you have right now you are mistaken. There is a way to manipulate your metabolism by eating certain foods at certain times. The kinds of foods and the timing is the key to changing your metabolism and making it possible for you to lose weight without starving yourself and thus setting yourself up for gaining more weight in the long run they way that you are probably used to any time you have tried a traditional low calorie diet.

Who wants to be on one of those diets anyhow? Why would anyone want to put the focus, time and effort into counting calories? Labeling some foods â€good†and others â€bad†based upon the number of calories contained in themâ€.when in actuality, calories are a necessary part of your diet!

So stop counting calories and start living again. Realize the truth behind low calorie diets and learn how to change your body metabolism so your body works for you instead of against you. There’s nothing wrong with your body. It is simply reacting to the stressors that you have put it through all these years by dieting. Change that around and have the slim, healthy body you have always dreamed of without starving yourself.



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