Can Eating Too Few Calories Stall Your Metabolism?
Learn why cutting too far back on calories will slow down your weight lose.
Learn why cutting too far back on calories will slow down your weight lose.
If you're like most people who want to lose weight, you want to lose it fast. So you may be tempted to make drastic changes in your diet to dramatically reduce the number of calories you consume. But what you may not know is that eating too few calories can actually backfire and sabotage your weight-loss efforts.
The body is an amazing thing. When we get the nutrients we need your body can do almost anything you ask it to, but when we don't get the nutrients we need, our body feels "at risk and goes in what we call survival mode. As a result our body does the following:
1. Conserves energy
2. Retains water
3. Slow down Metabloism
4. Stores body fat
5. Breaks down Skeletal Muscle
This is a starvation response that in the past, famine or lack of food is what triggered this response in the body. Now bad food choices, fast foods, lack of nutrients, or poor weight lose plans can trigger the same response in the body.
How do we move from Survival to Efficiency? Mke sur people understand that eating food is "fueling the body" and helping the metabolis to keep working throught the day. When we don't comume the metabloism to keep working thorught the day. When we don't comsume enough nutrion, our doby opersate from a stae of fear of sevival and begins to conserve resoureces to protect us including storing bodyfat.
Next topic: How to Boost your Metabolism and bulid a Lean Body.
