Another myth of weight loss is that the more calories you cut, the better and the more weight you will end up losing.
One pound of fat equals 3500 calories, so a good idea would be just to get your daily intake by 500 calories, and over seven days, then you will have your magic 3500 calories (7×500).
The problem though with cutting more than that is that your body ends up in “starvation mode”. This is exactly what you do not want to do, as your body will go totally on the defensive.
This process evolved from the early days of man, when food wasnt so plentiful, and it doesnt take long for your body to start holding on to body fat in any way it can.
When starvation mode starts, then your gets desperate for calories and will take it out of food and drink in all sorts of ways.
In order to keep functioning, your body will also unfortunaltely start to take calories from your hard-earned ultra-efficient lean muscle tissue, this is bad news because it will slow your metabolism down when lean muscle is reduced.
Muscle loss means a slower metabolic rate, which means slowing or completely stalling weight loss, exactly what you do not want to do!
Losing weight TOO QUICKLY is totally the wrong thing to do for a whole host of reasons, and this is why cutting calories too quick and by too many can help you lose more over the first couple of weeks, but will definitely lead to you piling it pack on and more when you begin to eat properly again.
This is the same old story maybe, but it doesnt make it any less sad, and the more times i see it, the more angry and determined to get people doing their weight loss plan in the correct manner, and not falling for the totally unhealthy way of slimming clubs etc.
