How many times have you gone on a quick extreme diet to lose weight and been successful but regained all of the lost weight and more once you stopped dieting? For many people the yo-yo effect is common and frustrating.
Fast weight loss is mostly the loss of water and muscle not from burning fat. Once the diet is stopped, you start eating as you did before you started the diet which just puts the weight right back on. You should aim to lose small amounts of weight over a longer period of time. How much depends on your goal as well as your general health. Too rapid a weight loss can impact your health as the body does not get the required nutrients and vitamins necessary to keep functioning.
When people go on a starvation diet, their metabolism will slow down and this leads to no weight loss. When your metabolism shuts down, the production of the hormone leptin is reduced. This hormone is necessary to control appetite as well as produce weight loss.
You need to keep your metabolism running at normal speed in order to maintain the production of leptin. This in turn leads to weight loss.
In order to lose weight and keep it off, you need to aim for small successes. Then you will maintain the motivation necessary t continue with your weight loss plan.
Many diets talk about losing weight rapidly but they do not necessarily tell you how to keep it off. People will not remain on a diet forever, in fact some diets are dangerous as they focus on eating only one type of food, cutting many other things out of your diet and not being nutritionally healthy. No wonder people quit them. The are boring and you can feel fatigued because your body is not working at a normal healthy pace.
You need to be able to follow a way of eating, not a diet for the long term. Most if not all diets are short term solutions to a problem. You need to pick a plan that maintains the nutrition that your body needs that must also be a part of a lifestyle change that you make at the same time. You will need to follow this plan forever. If you cannot then the diet that you are following will not work for you in the long term.
There are no short cuts to losing weight. You will need to make a lifestyle change in order to keep the fat off for the long term. That is the truth whether yo like it or not.
