Why Don't Low Calorie Diets Work

By Jason Kitral

Are you planning to follow a low calorie diet plan in order to lose weight? Because before you do, you should read this article to find out why it's not going to work!

A lot of people try a certain popular low calorie diet, only to give up after a few weeks when they don't lose any weight at all. It makes them feel like weight loss is an impossible goal, which it is not at all. They just don't understand that a low calorie diet is not the right way to do it.

The number one reason why low-calorie diet plans don't work is: when you eat low-calorie foods, your body basically remains malnourished. You feel sick and tired at all times. Forget about exercises, you don't have enough energy to complete even your regular activities. All these things happen because your metabolic rate is low!

If you want to lose weight successfully, you need to keep these two things in mind:

1. Calories are NOT the enemy! Calories are the fuel that keeps your body going, and they are necessary. If your body doesn't get enough food, it will slow down its metabolic rate, and you will start to gain weight instead of losing it, as your body struggles to hold on to the fat it has saved already.

The bad calories are those that are available in junk foods. So while you won't accumulate fat by eating 10 apples per day (even though a single apple contains almost 100 calories), you will surely get fat by eating 10 burgers!

That is the basic difference! You need to avoid empty calories (that is, junk foods) and embrace negative calorie foods, such as fruits and vegetables. Now negative calorie doesn't mean that there is no calorie in these foods; it only means that in order to digest themselves, these foods will force your body to burn more calories than what they provide! This results in calorie deficit which will ultimately result in weight loss!

2. The best way to boost your calorie usage, and make your body lose weight, is by building up muscles. Having lots of muscles causes your body to use a lot of calories to keep going, even when you're not doing anything much. If you concentrate on building up your muscles, you'll find the fat just melts off. To do this, you need to make sure to exercise plenty, and if possibe work out in the gym as well. Additionally, high protein foods will help you build up your muscles, so eat lots of meat and eggs.

When you eat low-calorie foods, you are not able to build muscles; instead you LOSE muscles. When your body doesn't have enough lean muscles, it is not able to burn fat since your metabolic rate remains at an abnormally low level. So that is one more reason why low calorie diets don't work!

The vast majority of low calorie diets will only make you lose water and muscles, while keeping all the fat. You'll end up even worse off than you were when you started the diet. Even though the scales may be lower, without the muscle, your body will have a lot more fat on it! The only way to stay slim is to keep your muscles up.

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