The Starvation Diet Myth

So you're thinking of a starvation diet?

You need to know that everyone who has tried to lose weight by starving themselves has failed in the long run.

So many who are desperate to lose weight are led to believe that severely restricting calories is the answer. They don't understand what happens when you starve yourself. When you starve yourself your body does something quite remarkable, it begins to ration everything that you eat. This means that it will use the absolute minimum amount of the food you eat and store the rest.

Your body is able to ration food on a starvation diet by slowing down the metabolism. You actually begin to burn calories slower. This is your body's way of doing whatever it can to keep you alive!

"So how does all of this affect my weight loss?"

It's true that creating a calorie deficit in your body will cause you to lose weight, but as everything seems wonderful on the outside something is happening on the inside

You can't sustain a calorie restricted diet without severely impacting your health. Eventually you will have to eat or your body will begin to shut down. In all actuality your body will begin to shut down much sooner than you think. The first sign is fatigue. Once you reach this point you are stuck.

You must eat or risk even greater harm to your body. When you do eat, it is like throwing wood on a fire without a flame...Because you have created a ration state in your body, your body will store everything you eat, and with a slowed metabolism, you will burn off very few calories. This is why, in most cases, people who starve themselves to lose weight end up far more overweight than they ever were!