Everybody wants to lose weight fast, but most people find that the faster they lose, the more likely they are to gain the weight back, and more.
Fad diets include some that are very restrictive. They might have you eat only cabbage soup for a week, for example.
Cabbage soup can be good healthy food, but even the healthiest food cannot provide everything that the body needs. We need a variety of foods if we want to sustain weight loss.
The other problem with losing weight too fast is that often times, people lose muscle instead of fat. Muscle burns fat, so you want to hold onto as much of that as you can.
Exercise programs can help to build muscle but they also require good nutrition.
If we lose weight very fast, our natural defense mechanisms will come into play. The aim of these is to conserve as much fat as possible to protect against starvation. The body will sacrifice muscle to hold onto its fat if it thinks that a famine has hit.
This means that if we lose weight fast, we can easily get into a situation where we don't actually lose much fat. To make things worse, when we start eating normally again, the metabolism will have slowed down so much that it is much easier to gain weight.
This is how dieting makes us fat.
To avoid this situation, just make sure that you lose weight slower and satisfy all of your body's nutritional needs while you are dieting.
