Tip Of The Week: Don't Starve Yourself To Lose Weight

Where does that leave you? Starving to lose weight (sometimes called crash diet) is one of those "quick-fix" remedies for weight loss that individuals think of first. You need to understand that starving is not the way lose weight.

Lots of individuals do this for days, weeks, months even years! with little or no results. The weight is gained during the Deprivation Cycle. Why do people gain weight or lose very little weight eating one long, 4-hour meal a day (typically in the evening)?

This behavior causes the body and mind to go into famine mode. The body will panics and start hoarding every calorie it can, storing these calories in the form of fat cells, thus fat/weight gain. The dangers of starving include loss of energy and loss of appetite through to dehydration which you might land you in the hospital.  In some cases you may end up getting fatter and in other cases you may lose the weight but end up with a very slow metabolism and  since you can't starve all your life, whenever you start eating normally most of what you eat would be stored as fat because your metabolism is slow.

So if you really want to keep the excess fat off, eat 3 - 4  portion controlled healthy meals a day and add exercise to, those extra kg will start to get burned off faster than you might think.