Can Conventional Diets
Produce Long Term Results?

Conventional diets are mostly short term weight loss strategies that use temporary restriction of calories to produce fast weight loss!

Many of them suggest 800-1200 daily calorie intake for women and 1500-1800 daily calorie intake for men.

Without a doubt, you will lose weight, whenever you drop your daily calorie intake this low.

The biggest problem with this approach is that this weight loss will only be temporary, and mostly will come from lean body mass (muscle and water).

Fad diets are short-term strategies that use certain food combinations to achieve weight loss, but they do not work for producing long term fat loss.

The statistics prove that 95% of the people who lose weight using a low calorie strategy or a fad diet, eventually gain it all back!

The main reasons why low calorie approaches do not work
in the long term!

The National Institute of Health has confirmed that in the United States currently--there are over 100 million overweight people. And over twenty percent of the population is clinically obese.

The biggest mistake most dieters make is trying to starve the fat off, by restricting their daily calorie intake drastically.

The human body is simply too smart for this to ever work, and has many defense mechanisms to protect you from starvation.

When your body senses a shortage of food, these mechanisms kick in, and decrease the energy expenditure to protect you.

This is known as the starvation response, and in the ancient times ensured the survival of our species.

When your body senses this drastic drop in calories it slows down its rate of calorie burning. This is what allows people to survive for months with very small amounts of food.

Unfortunately, your body can’t tell the difference between starvation and extremely low calorie consumption.

The Consequences Of Low Calorie Dieting

The starvation response is a blessing if you end up stranded somewhere without food supplies, but it works against you when you try using conventional low calorie diets.

When calories are restricted drastically, your metabolism slows down to compensate for this shortage of calories.

And after prolonged low calorie intakes, it is even possible to eat very small amounts of food--and still not lose any weight.

This, by the way, is the major reason why many people have such a problem losing...those last 10-20 pounds!

But the most devastating effect of the very low calorie strategy has to be the loss of muscle tissue.

Once your body senses the food shortage it begins to conserve energy, and since your muscle is a metabolically active tissue, getting rid of it--is the body’s way of decreasing energy expenditure.

In other words, your body actually breaks down its own muscle and uses it as an energy source.

Because of this, your lean body mass drops, your metabolism starts to slow down, and eventually you hit a weight loss plateau!

Once you reach this weight loss plateau, it becomes much harder to lose weight, even if you drop your calories to extremely low levels.

At some point this strategy of lowering you calorie intake triggers the starvation response.

When you go into starvation mode, your body will increase your appetite and cravings in an attempt to get you to eat more food.

It will do this simply because it wants you to survive!

Eventually Force You To Throw In The Towel...

It is almost impossible to stay on a low calorie diet when you are that hungry and all you think about is food.

Very few people have that much willpower.

From our experience, we have never known anyone who has reached and then maintained their ideal weight--using a low calorie approach.