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The side-effects of very low calorie diet plans

For most people around the world, losing weight is a very hard thing to do. The reason why people are so unsuccessful, is not because people do not care or do not want to lose weight, but because they just don´t do their homework. People still use very ineffective weight loss methods like very low calorie diets, that can´t work in the long-term but despite that facts of its failure and the risks, people are still using very low calorie diet to lose weight.

The side-effects of a very low calorie diet plans

The first thing that happens when you reduce your calories very low, is the slowing down of the metabolic rate. Less food also means that your body gets less energy, so the body has to conserve energy. Burning less calories is the best way to do that. So although you may lose a large amount of weight very quickly, with such diets, but once your body senses food deprivation and slows down the metabolism, then you hit a weight loss plateau. The second thing that happens, when you are on a very low calorie diet, is the loss of muscle tissue. For a lot of people it does not matter what they are losing, but people have to realise that weight loss is not fat loss. The majority of the weight you lose at the beginning of a diet is water weight and muscle tissue, not fat. Losing muscle tissue is very very bad, because the less muscle you have the less slower your metabolic rate gets. The initial weight loss is very often deceiving.
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