Calorie Counting Diets and Weight Loss

Part 1: Reasons Why a diet with Calorie Counting Does not Yield Weight Loss…

A lot of people think that calories are the enemies to the body in good shape because there is a notion that eating surplus calories result in excess fat. This makes many people believe that the easiest way to lose weight is to reduce the calories consumption each day.

A simple calculation to this principle is: if a person is taking 2,500 calories a day and they choose to curtail to 1,500 calories a day, then evidently the extra 1,000 calories should result in a significant weight loss. Though this calculation seems pretty simple and straight forward this is not precisely true.

In reality if you try to reduce your calories too much by means of starving yourself or skipping your meals then you will soon reach a dieting "flat terrain" (a position where the weight will not reduce any lower no matter how little food your are consuming).

Now let us take the example of an average person starting a new diet. One day while looking in the mirror you notice that your clothes have become little tighter that it used to be and that you look a little more plump than usual. This sight makes you angry with yourselves and you take a decision that you are going on a diet to reduce your weight with whatever hard work it needs.

That one day you are highly motivated and find that your mind is determined to lose some weight. So what is the first step to this goal? You start to skip your meals as a means to reduce the calorie intake. So that is how anyone starts on the “starvation diet.”

On the opening day of the dieting you are highly “motivated” to achieve your goal of losing weight you decide to skip the breakfast. After a few hours, as the hunger begins to take control, it becomes harder and harder for you to stick on to the decision. Your body is not used to "skipping meals" such as this, and your body starts to wonder why it is being without calories for such a long time.

At lunch time you are miserable but you don’t want to consider yourselves a quitter. So you have a piece of fruit or juice as a temporary remedy. Hours later at dinner time you realize that starving is not a great idea.

After a few weeks of starvation you will realize that you have not achieved any significant weight loss. Why is this happening? This is because the majority of the body weight lost through a “starvation diet” is not real fat loss but it is just water weight. Any “water weight” lost by starvation will be gained back as soon as you start eating in the normal way again.

This article continues in part 2: Of Calorie Counting Diet

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