Real Weight Loss and Low Calorie Diets Don't Mix

If you are considering using one of the many low calorie diets out there to lose weight, then you should think again.

There seems to be a certain logic to a low calorie diet. I mean the reason that you are probably overweight is because you are storing excessive calories as fat. It seems obvious that weight loss can be achieved by reducing calories.

What you may not know is that your body is one big defence mechanism. Everything that your body does is aimed at keeping you moving and keeping you alive. If your body is used to eating a certain amount of calories and if you then go ahead and drastically cut back on calories, your body will react by slowing down your ability to burn calories. This will occur because it will get a signal which tells it that food is in short supply, and it will begin the process of making calorie burning more difficult, the fact that you are trying to lose weight will not matter.

This is why so many people who go on low calorie diets, find that they lose some weight at the start, and then the weight loss stops after a few weeks. You simply realise that the diet isn't working, so you give it up. The realisation that the diet does not work is the correct realisation, but for different reasons to what you think. A low calorie diet is a temporary method, and you can guarantee that any lost weight will return.

This method is not only a waste of time and effort, but it gives you a negative mindset about losing weight. This means that each time you try to lose weight, you will approach it with the belief that you will not succeed, because you have always failed in losing weight in the past.

If your aim is to lose weight for the long term then low calorie diets are something that you need to keep away from. Let's face it, if these types of diets worked, you wouldn't be reading this. There are ways that you can successfully lose weight and keep it off. Having a long trm plan involving exercise and diet is the real key. The thing is to slow things down a little. Simply put, using sensible methods and sensible time frames will allow you not to only succeed in losing weight, but it will it will allow you to keep the weight off for good.

To put it bluntly, the choice is yours. You can carry on following the same old methods, if you want the same old results. If you want to change the results that you have been getting, then surely you will need to change what you have been doing. The use of low calorie diets are actully preventing you from losing weight in the long term.