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When you begin a strict diet, the body enters a state known as war economy. By drastically restricting the caloric intake with food, the body automatically reduces the amount you need or spent to maintain the basic functions that keep you alive. This is known as decreased metabolism. You will spend less calories per day.
When the diet is inadequate, metabolism becomes depressed. Every time consuming fewer calories, which, after a significant initial decrease, that excites you, the body enters what is known as a plateau. This means that the weight loss stops.
Suppose that you have gone on a diet of 2,000 calories daily to 1100. Your body loses fluid, fat and some muscle proteins. But above all, in those first four or five kilos that decreased, which has lost is fluid.
Noting that no longer lose weight, because what you spend has adapted to what you consume, the road will further reduce calories in their diet, reaching 800 or 700. Again recorded a decrease of weight, fat loss and muscle mass. Until we reach the next plate.
What is the path from that point? Further reduce calorie intake, because, otherwise, their body weight will not be mobile. Consume only 500 or 600 calories, to fall in fasting diets, unsustainable over time. Read the rest of this entry »