So I came across the following video, a Mad TV spoof called Eat Less Move More:
Absolutely hilarious! In some respects I agree with the concept of eating less and moving more to lose weight and get fit, but it doesn’t always work that way. There are times when a person needs to eat more in order to lose the poundage. That’s right…eat more!
Let me explain. Most of us have tried, or know people who have tried, to lose lots of weight by just not eating, or by drinking water and eating a few leaves of lettuce and carrots for meals. Basically, attempting to starve the body into submission. And that’s exactly what happens too. The body decides that yes, it is starving, and then begins doing everything it can to defend itself against starvation by clinging desperately to the fat!
So while it’s true that if you’re eating 5000 calories a day, then you probably do need to eat less, but adult females need a minimum of 1200 calories per day, and adult males would need even more. Teenagers of both genders need yet more calories a day because they are still growing. If people do not get at least these minimum amounts, the body decides that it doesn’t want to get rid of any fat and it becomes even harder to lose weight.
If you do end up starving some of your weight away, you aren’t losing just fat weight. You are also losing lean muscle and you end up just getting flabbier. If that’s not bad enough, then once you stop starving yourself (since a starvation diet is not a healthy lifestyle change), then the weight is going to quickly pile back on because you have messed up your metabolism.
So it can be very important to eat more if you want to lose more.
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