Diet not losing weight

**Dmitry Trackin** · 07-31-2011 02:47 PM

Fast diets are hugely detrimental due to their very approach, namely, drastic restriction of certain foods for a period of time.

There is no doubt that this approach works for a time, and a person may in fact quickly lose a lot of weight in this manner - up to two pounds a day. Unfortunately, loss of water accounts for a substantial share of the weight lost this way, as does the loss of muscle tissue, since protein stored in the form of muscles is the only nutrient that may be converted into glucose. Glucose is necessary to support an entire host of bodily functions. Deriving nutrition from ketone bodies would be an exception, but it takes a long time to reach this stage - not to mention that terminating a ketonic state leads to accelerated accumulation of fat.

Coincidentally, muscle mass accounts for about a third of all weight being lost (leading to apparent muscular dystrophy, accompanied by fatigue, hair loss, skin changes and depression). Fat does account for the remaining 20%, but only for a time, until the body shifts to a more economical mode. Quite often, this takes three or four days. After that, the share of fat in the total weight being lost goes down at the exclusive expense of muscle mass.

All this torture continues until the person finally slips. Once it does happen, the body, exhausted and all the wiser for this sad experience, will start accumulating fat to avoid another energy crisis in the future.

It should be noted that in the absence of concurrent strength training the muscle mass will not return to its original, pre-diet level. As a result, the person will gain the weight lost back, but now more of it will be fat than before the diet.

**CHANDLERS WISH** · 07-31-2011 02:50 PM

Here I was looking for spam I mean after all, strange entry to the Forum, giving us this valuable information but instead, after reading what you wrote? I have to actually "clap" now if that doesn't scare people off from trying quick fix, diets, knowing they will only gain more later from doing it, not to mention rolls of fat that they can not move and need surgery, not sure what will...

**Dmitry Trackin** · 07-31-2011 04:05 PM

What big mistake many people do with their weight loss programs...

Let me ask you a question: when a person is sick, would it be better to treat the
symptoms or the underlying cause? What would be better: to get rid of the cough or of
what’s causing it?

I am sure that as a reasonable person you would say that, naturally, it would be better
and more appropriate to do away with the ailment’s underlying cause.

THAN WHY MANY OF THOSE WHO WISH TO LOSE
WEIGHT TRY TO FIGHT FAT, FIRST AND FOREMOST, RATHER THAN WHAT BRINGS
ABOUT ITS EXCESSIVE ACCUMULATION?

Got you thinking?

Here’s other problem:

It is well known that weight reduction requires that the body consume fewer calories than it expends. One would think it is all pretty straightforward: eat less, be more active and stay in good physical shape at all times.

However, we all know from experience that achieving good results can be difficult since most people believe that losing weight is a function of their physique alone and thus disregard the psycho emotional component of the process which is even more relevant.

We seek out nutritionists and cosmetologists and spend years searching for miracle diets. What we often fail to realize is that losing weight involves three mandatory, closely connected components…

These three bodily factors - muscles, the state of internal organs and emotions - which we routinely consider as independent of each other are in fact unified parts of a closely-knit survival mechanism. Any changes in one of these components will necessarily affect the rest of them.

Here's an example: you've been offended by a salesperson in a store. Your irritation level rises, your muscles contract, and your adrenal cortex releases extra hormones which subsequently affect all internal organs. Any changes within the normal processes of the internal organs lead to subtle changes in the subconscious.

This chain reaction inevitably affects the muscle tone (some muscles contract while others relax) and creates an emotional response – and those emotions determine the conscious process of thinking.

Here is yet another example: you have just received good news and smiled. Your sympathetic nervous system calmed down, sphincters relaxed, the digestive function picked up, positive emotions came to the fore. Your thoughts are pleasant and anything seems possible because you are happy.

A human being is a living entity and comprises three inseparable components. When one of them is changed, the other two are immediately affected by that change.

Any successful weight loss effort requires that we reduce the tension and rid ourselves of anxiety, depression and fear, especially if overeating camouflages any internal psychological issues or personal conflicts.

It is well known that as a whole, eating behaviors are complex emotional and psychological processes which are greatly affected by emotional factors. Frequently, irresistible food cravings accompany various neuroses resulting in binge eating with no regard for quantity or quality of the food consumed. The feeling of hunger becomes overwhelming.

Thus over-eating becomes a subconscious dependency, and the stable connection between emotional stress and eating presents a clear symptom.

That cumbersome burden of constant fatigue, apathy and desperation deprives one of self-efficacy and obstructs any conscious effort to combat extra weight…