DON’T STARVE AND STUFF
Starving is probably the worst thing most people do when trying to lose fat, and it sends the worst messages to our bodies.
- Starving ourselves or depriving our bodies of food sends them into fat-storage mode, which is something no one wants. Our bodies are designed not to care how we look but to preserve our lives. When we starve them, they try to hold on to every last bit of fat reserves they have and fat burning just about stops. When we do finally eat again, we usually overeat and stuff ourselves, which really defeats our weightloss efforts since our bodies are now primed to store as much of that feast as fat as they can get away with, much more than they would have stored if we just continued eating normally.
- A starvation-type diet also causes the body, which is trying to preserve fat stores, to start catabolizing, or breaking down, other tissues like muscle, which is metabolically active and burns fat for energy. During a starvation situation muscle is the enemy. It’s burning precious fat that the body wants to hold on to, so it’s gotta go. When you start eating normally again, you’ll put on fat in record time, probably more than you ever had before, because you have less muscle mass to burn fat on a daily basis. In short, you’ve blunted your body’s fat-burning capacity.
- Finally, starving and stuffing creates emotional and mental turmoil. No one really wants to live like that.
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Thnx for the info bry. I hope I wont get into a fat-storage mode.