Does Calorie Counting Work?
Reducing calories will not help you lose weight. Calories are not the enemy here. If you eat 2500 calories per day and reduce yourself to 1500 calories per day, you won't necessarily lose weight. Your body will simply burn fewer calories. You will reach a dieting plateau. This means that you may lose a few pounds; however, once you reach a certain point, it will be impossible to lose weight.
What makes a person go on a diet in the first place? Well, it usually builds up to a specific point, or several, and one day, you look in the mirror and enough is enough. You are going to lose weight if it kills you. Your clothes are getting too tight and you are disappointed and frustrated with what you see. Does this seem familiar to you? I was once in your shoes and am finally feeling good about myself. Anyways, on this day you are particularly motivated and decide to go on a diet.
Today you have enough anger, motivation and frustration that you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes to lose it this time. You start by skipping breakfast; after all, you'll be having lunch in a few hours. Getting closer to lunch, you feel like you might not make it. You begin feeling week, the motivation has worn off, and everything around you is reminding you of food. Your body is not accustomed to being without food for so long.
You try to bravely tell yourself that you can do this, but you feel miserable. You want to lose weight but you don't want to be a quitter. For lunch you decide to have something small or maybe a salad, but your stomach is telling you its "HUNGRY." You are still convinced that eating less will get you to your goal.
By dinner, your hungry, tired and chances are you have a headache. You begin thinking, "Do you really want to do this everyday? Do you want to fight against yourself?" You are still so determined that you decide to stick with it for the rest of the day.
After a few days, you've likely gone back to your previous ways. Or, perhaps, if you are really brave you may have held off for a week or too. But now you feel terrible. Even if you've stuck with it for a few weeks, you won't have achieved any serious weight loss, and in fact, your body will still look the same when you look in the mirror. You may have made even worse by starving your body and now it absorbs every single calorie that enters your body. This is bad news, especially when you go back to your normal habits.
You may have lost a few pounds during this type of diet, but the weight that was lost is just water weight, not real fat loss. And all that water weight will be gained right back when you eat normal again.
If you keep trying this type of diet, you will never lose weight. Well, not fat loss anyways. Depriving yourself of calories is not the answer. Your body needs the right type of calories and in the right combination. You could be losing weight eating normally; you just need to know how. - 17273
What makes a person go on a diet in the first place? Well, it usually builds up to a specific point, or several, and one day, you look in the mirror and enough is enough. You are going to lose weight if it kills you. Your clothes are getting too tight and you are disappointed and frustrated with what you see. Does this seem familiar to you? I was once in your shoes and am finally feeling good about myself. Anyways, on this day you are particularly motivated and decide to go on a diet.
Today you have enough anger, motivation and frustration that you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes to lose it this time. You start by skipping breakfast; after all, you'll be having lunch in a few hours. Getting closer to lunch, you feel like you might not make it. You begin feeling week, the motivation has worn off, and everything around you is reminding you of food. Your body is not accustomed to being without food for so long.
You try to bravely tell yourself that you can do this, but you feel miserable. You want to lose weight but you don't want to be a quitter. For lunch you decide to have something small or maybe a salad, but your stomach is telling you its "HUNGRY." You are still convinced that eating less will get you to your goal.
By dinner, your hungry, tired and chances are you have a headache. You begin thinking, "Do you really want to do this everyday? Do you want to fight against yourself?" You are still so determined that you decide to stick with it for the rest of the day.
After a few days, you've likely gone back to your previous ways. Or, perhaps, if you are really brave you may have held off for a week or too. But now you feel terrible. Even if you've stuck with it for a few weeks, you won't have achieved any serious weight loss, and in fact, your body will still look the same when you look in the mirror. You may have made even worse by starving your body and now it absorbs every single calorie that enters your body. This is bad news, especially when you go back to your normal habits.
You may have lost a few pounds during this type of diet, but the weight that was lost is just water weight, not real fat loss. And all that water weight will be gained right back when you eat normal again.
If you keep trying this type of diet, you will never lose weight. Well, not fat loss anyways. Depriving yourself of calories is not the answer. Your body needs the right type of calories and in the right combination. You could be losing weight eating normally; you just need to know how. - 17273
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