17/02/2020
The Problems With Extreme Caloric Restriction Diets......
One of the biggest mistakes that a lot of fad diets make is encouraging people to drastically reduce their caloric intake from day one. For example, the standard diet usually consists of around 2,000 calories. If any diet instructs you to only consume, let’s say, 1,200 calories from the very beginning, be very cautious!!!
This is a fallacy for a couple of reasons.
First of all, the most important aspect of any diet you choose to follow is consistency. If you fall of the wagon after a week or so, every eating plan ever created is going to fail. Do you want to know a great way to avoid sticking to a diet - being miserable whilst you are trying to diet.
Another reason this type of diet is a no-no is the bodies response to acute caloric restriction. Reducing your caloric intake is how to lose weight. However, this should be done gradually. When you instantly begin eating far less calories than the body is used to, you actually signal a sort of starvation response. Your body is literally hardwired for survival, and instead of shedding excess body weight; it will literally do everything it can to keep it.
The end result of this type of diet....
Being hungry all the time and still not losing weight.