Starving Yourself to Lose Weight - Does it Work?

In order to lose weight you must create a calorie deficit. This means using more calories than those you eat. You can achieve a calorie deficit in 2 ways: increase physical activity and eat less. Therefore, it only seems logical that if you starve you will lose weight. It may seem logical but it's a self-destructive approach to weight loss and nutrition. The sad thing is that many people fall prey to this misconception and cause themselves harm.

Why is starving yourself to lose weight such a bad idea?

This is due to metabolic slowdown. You see, years of evolution have made our body into a survival driven organism. This means that our body constantly monitors itself in terms of survivability. If you starve yourself, you body will assume that there is no food to be had. It doesn't know dieting. It only knows survival. What the body does when it believes your starving is slow itself down in order to conserve energy. This means that you're burning less calories than you used to.

What happens is that you've put yourself into a race. On the one hand, you eat less calories, on the other, you're burning less, so you don't really achieve the kind of calorie deficit you were hoping for. What's even worse is that when you starve yourself to lose weight, you lose muscle tissue. This loss is hard to reverse. Muscle tissue is one of the keys to having a high metabolism.

What this means is that once you stop starving, you metabolism will be very low due to your lack of muscle tissue. You will find it increasingly harder to lose weight. In fact, that's where the pounds tend to start piling back up.

Where does that leave you?

You need to understand that starving yourself isn't the way to lose weight. You need to follow an eating method that lets you eat a decent amount of food and doesn't deprive you of nutrients. You also need to exercise in order to maintain your muscle tissue to increase your metabolism. This is the sensible and easier way to lose weight.

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