The Wellness of YOU! – # 88 – Weight Loss
posted in Nutrition and Weight Loss |In our last article we left you with the question, “How can you lose weight and keep it off?”
Before we get to the answer to that question, we need to first ask another …
“Why will eating less and exercising more make you gain weight?”
The answer is relatively simple, but not often taken seriously. The answer is that when you use a diet that requires you to eat less, you’re actually starving yourself to some degree. When your body is getting the message that it’s starving, it won’t matter how little you eat or how much you work out, you won’t reach your nutrition and weight loss goals.
One of the things that I have mentioned in these articles is the theory that if you burn off more calories than you take in, you’ll lose weight. That does make sense, doesn’t it? Calories and pounds are in direct relationship with each other. But I’m starting to get the message that this doesn’t always work the way it should.
Here are some reasons why I’m changing my tune on this.
First reason:
When you eat less food than your body needs, you are actually slowing down your metabolism. If your metabolism gets slower, you will burn off fewer calories making it harder to lose weight.
When you eat less then you need, your body thinks it’s starving and sends the “I’m starving” message to your brain. So, your brain says, “Whoa, we better shift into survival mode — and sends that message to your body which will now do whatever it can to keep you from starving to death — part of which is slowing down your metabolism.
Now, you start to feel weak, you have less energy, your body isn’t working as hard as it used to, thereby burning fewer calories — and — your appetite will increase and you will have a strong desire to eat as much as possible to avoid starvation.
Once your body hits starvation mode, you start — and keep — eating in order to “survive”. What happens is you end up gaining, not losing, weight.
In the next article we’ll cover another of the reasons why combining exercise with eating less will tend to cause a weight gain, rather than a weight loss.
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Have a great day. I’ll be back soon with some more nutrition and weight loss thoughts for you.
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Shanti,
Ron
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