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When It Comes To Fast Weight Loss – Just Remember That 2 + 2 Doesn’t Always Equal 4

Everybody knows that calories are the enemy, and that more
calories equals more weight gained. Therefore, most people
believe that losing weight is as simple as cutting way back on
calories.

It's just simple mathematics, right?

After all, if you're eating 3,000 calories per day and you cut
back to 1,000 calories per day, then those extra 2,000 calories
have to be burned from your body, right?

It's as simple as 2 + 2 equals 4, right? Well, this is not
exactly true.

First, let's talk about the average person who begins a diet.
The scenario usually goes something like this...

One day you look in the mirror and you finally get fed up with
the way your body looks (or the way that your clothes fit) -
and on this day you get "angry" with yourself, and you begin
cutting way back on calories in an attempt to starve yourself
thinner.

So you officially begin your "starvation diet."

On the first day you skip breakfast altogether (after all,
you're so filled with anger and motivation that it's easy to
skip breakfast).

Then, a few hours later your motivation quickly gives way to
severe hunger - since your body is not accustomed to being
without calories for so long.

Finally, by lunchtime you're so hungry that you feel weak and
miserable, but yet you tell yourself that you can make it
through this tough hunger (after all, you don't want to look
like a quitter to your friends and family who know that you're
dieting).

So you have a small piece of fruit for lunch perhaps, bravely
trying to stick to your plan of starving yourself thin.

Then, hours later when dinnertime arrives you're so hungry and
weak that you have a big migraine headache - and you're
beginning to realize that starving yourself might not be such a
good idea after all.

However, you try to hold out for another day or two on this
miserable diet - since nobody likes to feel like a quitter.

So you'll probably hold out for another day or two, making
yourself miserable in the meantime.

There are even some brave dieters who may hold out for a week
or so, possibly even 2 weeks for the bravest of dieters.

However, regardless of how long you hold out -- the result is
still the same.

You see, even after 2 weeks of starving you won't have made any
noticeable difference to your body when you look in the mirror.

Why?

Simple, because the weight lost during a starvation diet is
largely water weight, not real weight loss. This water weight
will be gained back immediately when you stop dieting and begin
eating normally again.

Also, when you starve yourself your body begins burning fewer
calories each day -- so even though you're eating fewer
calories each day you must remember that your body is also
burning fewer calories.

For example, let's say that you normally eat 2,500 calories per
day (before you begin dieting). Then, you suddenly try to starve
yourself by eating only 1,000 calories per day.

Guess what?

Even though you're eating 1,500 fewer calories per day your
body will begin burning 1,500 fewer calories per day - so your
weight will remain the same even though you're starving
yourself.

When your body begins burning fewer calories it's called a
weight loss "plateau." This is why virtually all starvation
dieters cannot make the scale go down after about 2 weeks of
dieting.

This is why even the most determined of "starvation dieters"
always fail after just a couple of weeks.

The truth is that "noticeable" weight loss simply cannot be
achieved by starvation, and it's pointless to even try that
type of diet.

True weight loss can only be achieved by giving your body the
right types of calories at the right times each day. Your body
is like a big engine, and the truth is that it needs all 3
types of calories (protein, carbs, and fat) to some degree.

The best way to lose weight is to effectively manage these 3
types of calories, so that your body receives the proper amount
of protein, the proper amount of carbs - and also the proper
amount of fat each day.


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