Are You Dieting To Lose Weight? Well, it is not uncommon that if a person starts getting fat, then his first attempt to lose weight would be by dieting. But does this work? If you are not “effectively” dieting, it does not work. In fact, one of the main causes of weight gain is dieting. I know so many people who have been dieting for years, and all they are doing is gaining weight! Do you wanna know why? After doing an extensive research in the Internet, I really came to an interesting conclusion. So if you have very little idea on dieting, don’t start dieting to lose weight!
The reason for that is, if you understand dieting as mere “reducing your food intake,” then that’s a wrong move! When you reduce your food intake to lose weight, all you do is push your body in a so-called “famine alert” state. That means your body gets an impression that the food is scarce, and hence it slows down the process of metabolism to make the best use of the small amount of food that it is receiving. Actually, when we say that we want to lose weight, what we actually mean is that we want to lose “fat,” and when we start dieting to lose weight, all we lose is water, muscle, and other lean tissues and NOT fat.
Actually, our body is programmed to hold on to fat, and when we start dieting by having less amount of food than the body actually needs, it will actually go beyond breaking down your muscle and losing water in order to actually hold on to the fat reserves! You can actually lose up to 10 pounds in a week by losing your muscle and other tissues but certainly not your fat; it is physically impossible to lose more than 900 grams of body fat in a week! So dieting can make you lose weight, but not fat.
Now you might be wondering how can dieting make you gain weight then, right? Well, it is an after-effect. After months of dieting and finding out that it actually isn’t working, people generally tend to get frustrated and start eating normally. Now, that’s another wrong move! Since everything you eat was being dealt at a much slower rate, you can not expect your metabolism to be normal just because you’re starting to eat normally. Hence a much higher percentage of the food you eat will be laid down as fat and so more fat is stored! And please keep in mind, even your body wants to build up more fat reserves just in case such “famine” occurs again, hence a gain in your weight!
I am currently doing an extensive research on how to effectively lose body fat. So you can expect another article on “How To Lose Your Body Fat Effectively” shortly. Thank you and I hope you have a nice time surfing my other posts!
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There are a lot of FDA approved diet pills such as GlaxoSmithKline’s weight-loss drug, Alli which is to be sold over the counter. Just as the weight-loss drug Xenical, Alli also contains the drug “Orlistat” which absorbs fat from the foods you eat every day, hence can reduce your fat. But the worse part is, since it absorbs all kinds of fats, it actually will also absorb healthy fats like omega fatty acid and Vitamin D from the food, which are essential to our body.
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