| It's amazing that in this time of low-fat, low-calorie | | | | gaining weight. The truth is simply that consuming |
| everything, such a large percentage of people are | | | | fewer calories causes your body to make use of |
| still overweight and collectively getting heavier | | | | stored calories which have been stored as fat. If |
| every day. Everyone is looking for the best way | | | | you don't consume enough calories, your body will |
| to lose weight, the easiest, quickest, least painful | | | | make use of the stores of fat, and you will |
| process of shedding pounds. Weight loss ads are | | | | absolutely lose weight. |
| everywhere, diet plans abound, and in the midst | | | | Furthermore, studies have also shown that taking |
| of all this you are told that if you cut your calories | | | | in fewer calories does not in any way slow down |
| too much you will go into "starvation mode" and | | | | the metabolism as is thought by many. Is this just |
| not only stop losing weight but get fatter! This | | | | another myth? Given the studies I have read, I |
| makes things so confusing that sometimes you | | | | think it is. |
| end up just not doing anything at all. Hence you | | | | So given this information, there is really nothing |
| certainly don't lose any weight. | | | | else you need concern yourself with other than |
| So basically, on one hand you are told to stop | | | | taking in fewer calories than what you actually |
| eating to lose weight, and then on the other hand | | | | need to maintain your current weight. That's the |
| told to not stop eating or you'll get heavier. This | | | | best way to lose weight and keep it off. If for |
| was a subject that both puzzled and intrigued me | | | | example you need 2000 calories per day to |
| so I decided to do a little reading on it and I am | | | | maintain the weight you are at right now, |
| now convinced that it is possible the whole | | | | decreasing your caloric intake to 1800 will result in |
| starvation mode, although perhaps containing a | | | | a loss of weight, guaranteed. |
| nugget of truth to begin with, is nothing but a | | | | So put aside the idea of starvation mode, slowing |
| myth that is constantly perpetuated to the point | | | | down your metabolism, and other "old wives' |
| that it has become a common belief. | | | | tales" and simply consume fewer calories per day. |
| If you think about it, it is just scientifically | | | | You'll burn fat and lose weight! |
| impossible to take in fewer calories and end up | | | | |