Are Low Calorie Diets Healthy? Sorry to Disappoint But the Answer is No!
First off, let's get one thing straight.
A "diet" doesn't have to be a strict set of rules that a person follows just to lose weight.
To see any real (and healthy) results it's crucial for someone to make important lifestyle changes.
Replacing ice cream with fresh fruit can technically be called a diet because it's the conscious choice as to what foods to eat.
The only people that low calorie diets actually help are those that write the programs and sell the product.
Everything about these products are linked to promises! Ever see the so called "testimonials" on TV which show a beautiful, fit person claiming they lost 75 pounds on such-and-such diet? The next time one of those comes on look at the bottom of the screen, there will be a sentence that states: results not typical.
What does that mean for the rest of the world? The people paraded in front of the camera are the minority.
The group that actually experienced some sort of success on any given product.
This is sad because low calorie diet plans are stealing money away from millions of people and can't give them anything to show for it.
The reason that low calorie diets don't work is because the body doesn't interpret "low calorie" the same way the mind does.
We make a conscious decision to eat less calories in hopes that our bodies will get energy from fat.
As we're wasting away our bodies are going into survival mode.
This is when your body thinks that you're not getting enough food to eat so it operates off as little calories as possible, then stores the rest as fat.
Scary isn't it? Well how about this for example: Susie wants to lose weight for her sister's wedding, so she decides to go on a famous low calorie diet.
Susie cuts her normal 2500 calorie a day diet to about 1100 calories.
In the first week she loses about four pounds, and thinks it's great! But over the next month she continually adds more fat to her belly line and has decreasing levels of energy.
The ending result is a disappointment when she can't fit into the dress for her sister's wedding.
A "diet" doesn't have to be a strict set of rules that a person follows just to lose weight.
To see any real (and healthy) results it's crucial for someone to make important lifestyle changes.
Replacing ice cream with fresh fruit can technically be called a diet because it's the conscious choice as to what foods to eat.
The only people that low calorie diets actually help are those that write the programs and sell the product.
Everything about these products are linked to promises! Ever see the so called "testimonials" on TV which show a beautiful, fit person claiming they lost 75 pounds on such-and-such diet? The next time one of those comes on look at the bottom of the screen, there will be a sentence that states: results not typical.
What does that mean for the rest of the world? The people paraded in front of the camera are the minority.
The group that actually experienced some sort of success on any given product.
This is sad because low calorie diet plans are stealing money away from millions of people and can't give them anything to show for it.
The reason that low calorie diets don't work is because the body doesn't interpret "low calorie" the same way the mind does.
We make a conscious decision to eat less calories in hopes that our bodies will get energy from fat.
As we're wasting away our bodies are going into survival mode.
This is when your body thinks that you're not getting enough food to eat so it operates off as little calories as possible, then stores the rest as fat.
Scary isn't it? Well how about this for example: Susie wants to lose weight for her sister's wedding, so she decides to go on a famous low calorie diet.
Susie cuts her normal 2500 calorie a day diet to about 1100 calories.
In the first week she loses about four pounds, and thinks it's great! But over the next month she continually adds more fat to her belly line and has decreasing levels of energy.
The ending result is a disappointment when she can't fit into the dress for her sister's wedding.
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