Why Fad Diets Do Not Return Good Results

By Russ Howe


There are thousands of people who falsely believe that they can't lose weight on a low calorie diet no matter what they do in the gym, leading themselves down a path of frustration and anger. In a bid to shed some pounds, most people hit a wall before they have even began.

The first thing to do is forget about pushing past this issue without changing anything. Your lack of results is your body's way of telling you that something is wrong in either your workout regime or your eating plan.

When people hit this wall, they will reach the conclusion that they cannot see progress. They normally have two big issues in common with each other:

1. They eat less than 1000 calories per day.

2. They spend their time doing endless hours of cardiovascular activity.

Should you recognize any of the above conditions in your current predicament you need to change tactics. Overdoing the cv exercise and eating too little food is a sure-fire way to blast your body into a plateau.

Of course, on top of the list of dieting mistakes is the fatal error of removing all your favorite junk foods from your daily eating plan. In doing this, you immediately turn your new routine into an uphill struggle against your will. In turn, individuals who do this usually follow it up with the equally devastating move of restricting their calorie intake far too much. The body reacts by forcing itself into emergency survival mode.

If you do manage to push your body into starvation mode, your metabolism will take a battering. It can slow down considerably in an attempt to stop you from burning the nutrients it needs to survive, the same nutrients you are restricting in your diet. That's why you'll often hear people wondering why they cannot lose any more fat despite eating only a little amount of food and working out a lot.

Furthermore, long steady state cardio workouts have been well documented for their ability to cause muscle breakdown. That's right, not only are you burning less fat in the gym but you are also losing lean muscle tissue. Endless hours on the treadmill is not necessary to drop some weight.

Instead of falling victim to the same old mistakes, you can do two things. Firstly, structure your calorific intake to be roughly your goal body weight (in pounds) multiplied by twelve. This ensures enough quality calories per day are entering your system and, believe it or not, you will find it far easier to lose fat despite eating more food than you may right now.

Likewise, your cardio routine needs a nudge in the right direction and that can be attained with the use of high intensity interval training, which will provide you with shorter and more enjoyable sessions as well as a more difficult workout overall. HIIT and weights are proven to be more effective for both burning body fat and building lean muscle tissue.

Before you jump to the conclusion that you can't lose weight on a low calorie diet and workout program, look at why you aren't seeing any results. By incorporating the latest science, as we have done today, you can see that the solution to your problem is not very complex at all.




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