Still Fat No Matter How Low Calorie Your Diet Is?

If our bodies need to burn a certain number of calories to maintain our body weight, then it should be easy to lose weight, right?

Common sense would say that all we have to do is cut down the number of calories that we consume.

There are many studies that show this is not effective long term. An interesting study was published that showed a group on a low calorie diet who lost 26% of their body weight during the study gained it back almost immediately. They gained it right back.

EVERYONE in the study regained almost 75 percent of their lost weight within three years of completing the study. And many studies show even worse results than that.

If weight loss were as simple as less calories in and more calories burned then it would be easy for everyone to get thin.

Long term weight loss using low calorie diets can't be achieved for numerous reasons.

Part of it has to do with biology and how our ancestors evolved to survive the feast and famine lifestyle.

We need a certain amount of calories to stay alive. Since humans and other animals evolved in the days when we had to hunt and gather our food, and food supplies were never predictable, our bodies developed in a way that allows us to survive times of famine.

When little or no food is available, our metabolism simply slows down and we burn less calories. Unfortunately this is just one of the many survival mechanisms that our bodies developed that worked to keep us alive thousands of years ago, but that don't work so well in the modern world where there's a Dunkin Donuts on every corner.

It is natural to crave bad foods. Things like sweets and fats which are foods that would have helped us survive long ago but now they just make you fat.

A study in the Journal of American Medicine showed that a group of people put on a very low calorie diet experienced a 20 percent decline in their metabolism in the first month and their metabolism continued to fall for three months straight after that.

What a nightmare! You have to eat less when on a low calorie diet....and less...and less...in order to lose weight, and you will very quickly reach a point where you are struggling simply to maintain your weight.

If you are have cut calories attempting to lose weight then you know this is true.

The first few days or even the first week or two of the diet, the weight crashes off. You're constantly starving and can't concentrate because you're so hungry and you're irritable and dizzy, but hey, at least the weight is falling away, right?

This doesn't last long. The loss slows then comes to a halt. No matter how much you starve yourself you're seeing no reward.

Another reason the diets fail is most people can stick to them long term.

And if you start eating normally - if you even start increasing your calories a little bit...the weight piles back on after all that hard work.

This sounds like terribly discouraging news, but it really doesn't need to be. It simply means that low calorie diets do not work well for maintaining weight loss.

It's actually great news because you don't have to starve again! You need to find a diet that you can stick to long term that is proven to give results or even one that will teach you to shift your calories vs. sticking to a certain amount over and over.
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