You do this to conserve gas so that you’re not stuck on the side of the road with your thumb out begging for a ride.
The fact is, when you restrict your calories to try to balance the calories in, calories out equation, all you get is ravenous hunger and a slower metabolism .
Like you, it acts accordingly by slowing things down – it will tell your thyroid gland to slow down your metabolism (not what you want when you’re trying to lose fat!).
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And that’s before we even bring nutrients into the picture. If you start to eat half as much food, you get half as much nutrients. When you get half as much nutrients, your body goes haywire. Your hormones get out of wack, you can’t sleep at night, you have no libido, you get depressed, and you can’t think properly.
This is why your friend who is only eating 900 calories a day can’t lose a pound. Her metabolism has made the proper survival driven adjustments, slowing so considerably from such prolonged energy deprivation, that anything beyond her rice cakes and hour long cardio sessions will make her weight balloon right back up.
And my credibility would be shattered. To clarify what 10 calories actually IS – it’s 1.5 almonds. So if I just had 1 and a half almonds more than I was supposed to, I’d be 10.4 pounds fatter right now.
And yet, here I am, standing before you at only 171 pounds. Am I the only one who finds this incredible? If this isn’t enough to prove that calories in, calories out doesn’t work, then I don’t know what is.
And when she does break and find herself at a buffet gorging herself, she’ll pack the pounds back on faster than ever before.
Let me give you a real life example. When your vehicle is running low on fuel, you act accordingly. You might take it easier on the gas pedal, you coast down hills, and you keep your eyes peeled for the nearest gas station.
When your body is low in fuel, it does the same thing that you do to your car. When less calories are coming in because you’re dieting, your body sees no reason to keep firing on all cylinders.