Showing posts with label dieting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dieting. Show all posts

Why You Can't Skip Meals and Lose Weight!

The body reacts to weight loss as if it were starving,                 and in response, slows its metabolism.

When your metabolism slows, you burn fewer calories -- even at rest. So it makes it almost impossible to lose weight.


If you continue to take in fewer calories, you will either stop losing weight as quickly as you have been, or you'll stop losing weight altogether.


After starvation diets, eating under 1400 calorie per day diets, when you increase your calorie consumption, you may actually gain weight more quickly than you have in the past.


The solution is to increase your physical activity & eat 5 small nutritious meals a day. (Skip sugar, white flour and empty calories that don't fuel your body & help you to stay healthy)


Doing so will counteract the metabolic slow down caused by reducing calories. A regular schedule of exercise raises not only your energy expenditure while you are exercising but also your resting energy expenditure -- the rate at which you burn calories even when the workout is over and you are resting.

Dieting, but not losing weight?

After a few weeks of dieting do you experience trouble losing more weight? 



 


Here are 4 reasons why the human body adapts to our workouts that can contribute to slow weight loss.

1.  Physiological effects: a decrease in metabolic rate after we reduce our calorie intake, caused from loss of protein & hormonal changes.

2.  Exercise effects, our energy system when we continually do the same exercise-less calories are burned because it’s no longer the same challenge as it was when we were first learning.  Now our energy expenditure is less and we burn less calories.

3.  Exercising too hard too soon forces cells to burn more carbohydrates and less fat.

4.  Rapid reduction of food intake triggers starvation mode lowers metabolism quickly Skipping meals too often may produce intense food cravings caused by lower blood sugar levels.