How Not To Lose Weight – Dieting The Ugly Truth
I could write a book about this one! But to cut a long story short, if your body thinks it’s being starved it will hang on to as much fat as possible. In fact it will actually start to burn muscle for fuel in preference to fat. And seeing that muscle is your body’s fat-burning furnace, the less muscle you have, the fewer calories you will burn!
You are killing the very thing that will help you lose fat.
Some diets claim that this won’t happen. You have to make sure that you eat enough so that it doesn’t. Everyone is different; you have to tailor your eating and exercise to suit YOU.
Tricky one, this! Most overweight people would say they are motivated to lose weight because they want to improve their health, feel better and be able to fit into their clothes.
The problem is, every time you fail to reach your target weight, or worse – reach target and then pile the weight back on – you are reinforcing in your mind that it’s just not possible. The next time you TRY to lose weight, you are defeated before you even start. After all, your brain now knows with some certainty (because you’ve trained it to expect failure), that putting in the effort required just isn’t worth it. It convinces you that failure is inevitable.
Sticking to a strict diet is hard, makes you miserable and as bad-tempered as a weasel, and is 90% likely to fail! You starve your body which tries to hang on to every ounce of fat it can. You deprive yourself of all the things that make life enjoyable,and you feel like there’s nothing to look forward to. It is hard – for you and everyone around you. Crash dieting has even been cited as reason for a divorce!
(I’d be a bit suspicious of that last..)
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