Why Calorie
Counting Doesn’t Work for Weight
Loss...
Most people believe that
calories are the "enemy", since eating excess calories
leads to excess fat, right? That’s why most
people believe that the fastest way to lose weight is to
cut way back on calories each day.
After all, if
a dieter is eating 2,500 calories per day and they
decide to cut back to 1,500 calories per day ?then
obviously those extra 1,000 calories have to result in
weight loss, right?
Well, actually this is not
exactly true.
In fact, if you try to cut your
calories too much (via starving yourself and skipping
meals) then you'll quickly reach a dieting "plateau" (a
point where the scale refuses to drop any lower no
matter how little your are eating).
Firstly, let’s
talk about how the average person begins a new
diet...
The scenario usually sounds something
like this...
One day you look in the mirror and
see that your clothes are fitting tighter than normal,
and you look more overweight than normal. ...And on this
day you get “angry?with yourself, you’re angry with what
you see in the mirror ?and you decide that you’re going
to lose weight no matter what it takes.
You are
filled with lots of motivation and anger on this day,
and you feel determined to do whatever it takes to get
slimmer.
So what's the first thing you
do?
...You begin skipping meals and cutting way
back on calories in an attempt to starve yourself
thinner, since you're convinced that calories are the
enemy.
Anyway, the above scenario is how you
begin your “starvation diet.?br> On the first day
of dieting you feel so “motivated?to lose weight that you
decide to skip breakfast.
Unfortunately, this
motivation doesn't last for long, because after a few
hours your hunger begins making you feel weak -- because
your body is not accustomed to "skipping meals" like
this, and your body is not accustomed to being without
calories for so long.
Anyway, by the time
lunchtime arrives you’re so hungry (and weak) that you
feel absolutely miserable --- but yet you bravely tell
yourself that you can handle this diet (because after
all, you certainly don’t want to feel like a quitter).
So you perhaps have a piece of fruit for lunch
(or perhaps another small food item instead), since
you're still convinced that you can starve yourself
thinner.
Finally, hours later when dinnertime
arrives you’re so miserable and hungry that you have a
major headache ?and this is the moment when you finally
begin to realize that starving yourself might not be
such a good idea after all.
After this first day
of starving yourself you feel horrible, but you’re
determined to stick to your diet since you don't want to
be a quitter so soon -- so you’ll likely hold out for
another few days on this diet.
Or, if you are
particularly brave then you may even hold out for a week
or two.
However, regardless of how long you
actually hold out -- you won't get any slimmer and the
final result will still be the same.
You see,
even after two weeks of starving yourself you won’t have
achieved any serious weight loss at all. In fact,
your body will still look the same when you look in the
mirror.
Why is this true?
This is true
because most of the weight lost during a “starvation
diet?is just water weight, and not real fat
loss.
You must remember that any “water
weight?lost during a starvation diet will be gained back
immediately when you stop dieting and start eating
normally again.
Also, whenever you starve
yourself you cause a “hidden?factor to come into
play...
You see, whenever you starve yourself
your body will begin burning fewer calories each
day.
For instance, let’s say that you normally eat
about 3,,000 calories per day.
....But then you
suddenly cut way back on calories -- so that you're now
eating only 1,000 calories per day.
Guess what
happens?
Even though you’re eating 2,000 fewer
calories per day your body will begin burning 2,000
fewer calories per day ?so in reality your weight will
remain the same even though you’re eating 2,000 fewer
calories per day.
When this happens the scale
will stop going down regardless of how little you are
eating each day, and this is known as a weight loss
“plateau.?
This is why most starvation dieters
cannot make the scale go down anymore after just two
weeks of dieting. They all hit a “plateau? where the
scale just refuses to go down any further, no matter how
little they are eating each day.
Now you know why
you’ve always failed when trying to starve yourself in
the past, since it’s just not possible to lose weight by
starving yourself.
The truth is that
“serious?weight loss can never be achieved by starvation
dieting.
Serious weight loss can only be achieved
by giving your body the right types of calories at the
correct times each day, which is something that we talk
about below...
Your body is actually like a big
“engine?-- and the truth is that your body needs all 3
types of calories (protein, carbs, and fat) to some
degree.
To begin losing weight fast we recommend
using the new Idiot Proof Diet from Fat Loss 4
Idiots -- because it does not require any calorie
counting (it's one of the only diets
in the world which forces fast weight loss without
the need to count calories).
You can
begin
this new diet right
here. |