Why It is Stupid to Lose Weight by Starving Yourself

on 2/8/2008 by Yavor | filed in: Diet and Nutrition
In order to lose weight you have to have a caloric deficit. Calories in must be exceeded by calories out. The quickest way to do it is just to eat less. While this strategy will work for a while, it has its drawbacks.

First the body gets in a starvation mode once you drop calories for a prolonged period. Thus it starts burning less energy for the same activities and weight loss thus platoes.

Also, if no weight training is added to the daily activities, the weight loss will be partly from the decrease of the muscle/organ/tissue mass. This is a bad thing as it decreases the number of calories the body burns.

A better approach is to decrease calories a bit but also add more activities as well as some resistance training. Bodyweight exercises are great for this because while you are dropping weight, they start being easier for you.

Tags  weight loss, fat loss, bodyweight exercises
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MoneyShot MoneyShot
April 01, 2009
2:41 AM
from now on, when people ask how to lose weight, i will link them to this tip. one of the best tips on this site, period

 
Yavor Yavor April 01, 2009  5:34 AM
MoneyShot,

thanks bud!

copamania copamania
March 31, 2009
9:31 PM
theres nothing wrong with fasting

 
Yavor Yavor April 01, 2009  5:33 AM
copemania, intermittent fasting is ok, which means eat than fast, then eat again and so on... Check out this article I wrote with my experience here:
http://relativestrengthadvantage.com/eat-stop-eat-how-to-lose-fat-and-preserve-your-muscles-without-traditional-dieting/

prolonged starvation will make you look like a starving monk or a bulimic.

 
MoneyShot MoneyShot April 01, 2009  2:03 PM
why would anyone want to fast? I am constantly starving all day so the last thing I would want to do is put my body in a catabolic state and run the risk of losing muscle


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