The Danger Of Rapid Weight Loss

Most people who want to lose weight, want it to happen quickly and as easy as possible. After all the very thing that makes us gain weight does so because of the pleasure of eating.
 And weight loss is seen as painful.

So the faster you can lose that extra weight the better, right?


Wrong! Fast weight loss is simply a recipe for long term failure.

 When you do a radical low calorie diet, or extensive fasting your body believes it's in danger. In the early days of hunter gatherers, people lived a life of feast or famine.

In the famine times traditionally the body would go into a protective phase, to hold on to fat until another food source could be found.

A radical diet will cause weight loss, because once your food reserves are burnt up then your body will start to use up fat reserves.

But it will slow this process quickly.

Fast weight loss is not just fat loss.

 A lot of fluid loss occurs. You become under hydrated and your metabolism slows down even more. Dehydration causes major health problems. Another big problem is muscle loss.

Muscle loss is is hard to recover from. It takes a lot of exercise to build just one kilo of muscle. But you can lose it quickly if you do a radical weight loss programme.

An example would be if you start a very low calorie diet. You lose four kilos in a week. It could be two kilos of fat, one kilo of muscle and a kilo of fluid. You find you can't sustain this diet so you stop. Within i few weeks you have put the four kilos back on.

But it would most likely be one kilo of fluid and three kilos of fat.

Because its easy to put on fat and hard to put on muscle. Now you are back to your old weight. But you have more fat and less muscle. Which means that you will have less fat burning ability.

With each subsequent weight loss attempt you will lose more muscle.

The key to successful weight loss is to lose weight at a slow sustainable way. Just a half a kilo per week is easy for your body to cope with. Plus if you do regular exercise you will maintain your muscle mass. In addition ensure you are properly hydrated. This gives you the best chance of achieving and maintaining your ideal weight.

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Keep healthy and happy
Ian Newton

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