Finding a healthy weight loss diet plan that works is very hard to do. The reason is that diets in general are not permanent solutions, they are only temporary. People don´t lose weight successfully because they don´t really understand what a diet is and why it does not work. In this article I will explain why most weight loss diets don´t work.
A diet is nothing more that a severe restriction of food that is not permanent but temporary. It is very easy to lose weight with a diet in the very beginning and most diet "experts" take advantage of that and make their diet sound incredible. But 95% of people gain the weight back and I am sure you have experienced the same thing. You lose weight with a diet plan in the beginning, your progress gets slower, then you stop losing weight and finally you start gaining weight again. Most people just pick another diet and start this process all over again.
The problem is that if you reduce your calories very drastically like with a diet, then your body thinks that you are in serious trouble and starving. So the body starts to conserve energy by slowing down your metabolism, and holding on to the fat. The less you eat the less calories you also burn. Even the weight you do lose with a diet is not all fat, but mostly muscle.
Muscle is a metabolically active tissue, meaning it takes a lot of calories just to maintain muscle, so when a body has to save energy then muscle is the first to go, not fat. And the less muscle you have the less calories you also burn.
A weight loss diet plan can never be very healthy for you, because diets in general are not healthy. The real secret to fat loss is burning the fat and feeding the muscle. This may seem strange that you have to eat more to lose fat but that is the truth.
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