In the modern world, losing weight is one of the most pressing problems, there is simply a huge number of a wide variety of diets (from relatively simple to extremely complex), but many of them do not give the expected result. And it's not only about frankly commercial offers, it often happens that the diet that allowed your friend to lose weight did not help you get rid of those extra pounds. Let's see why.
diet does not give the expected resultTo begin with, you need to understand one simple thing: the only reason for losing weight is a calorie deficit. If your body is not in a calorie deficit, then you will not be able to lose weight, even if you work out in the gym day and night. This is generally a very common mistake: many perceive a visit to the gym as a kind of indulgence, they say, now you can eat anything and in any quantity. This only leads to weight gain, although muscles grow too.
Many diets are based on the elimination of high-calorie foods, by the way, these are the most effective diets. As for, for example, maintaining the balance of proteins-fats-carbohydrates, then this does not play a big role for weight loss. For health, yes, this is very important, but for losing weight, the main thing is a calorie deficit, and you can create it in different ways. In fact, you can even lose weight on cakes. Only for this you need to eat very few cakes, since they are extremely high in calories.
We said that you only need a calorie deficit to lose weight. But there is one important subtlety here that is usually forgotten and which is precisely the reason for the ineffectiveness of many diets. This calorie deficit should be kept small. Roughly speaking, your body should not experience severe hunger, this leads to the inclusion of protective mechanisms.
Death from hunger is generally very common in the wild, and in many backward states too. But obesity does not die in the wild. Therefore, our body in the process of evolution has learned to deal with a lack of food, so it is easy to gain excess weight.
When you go on a rigid diet, your body perceives it as a threat of starvation: after all, very few calories come in. He begins to economize: you feel weak and drowsy, even for strong emotions there is no strength left. But the main disadvantage of such a situation is not this (in the end, whatever you can do to lose weight, you can endure weakness and drowsiness).
The fact is that during such periods, the body perceives subcutaneous fat as an "emergency reserve", which can only be addressed as a last resort. And first of all, muscle tissue is burned: you lose weight from a strong diet quickly, but this is due to a decrease in muscle mass, and not subcutaneous fat. You become slimmer, but not much, and to call such a figure sexually complex: the forms are not elastic, but sagging.
But this is only half the trouble. Sooner or later, you stop a rigid diet, and your body, taught by bitter experience, begins to stock up for the future in case of another such shock. And the lost pounds quickly return, but not in the form of muscles (for this you need to go to the gym regularly), but in the form of subcutaneous fat. So after a tough (overly tough) diet, the hard-lost pounds quickly return. And in the worst quality.
Thus, the wrong choice of diet is due to a lack of understanding of the basic mechanisms of weight loss. People often think that they are losing weight from some special foods (or their absence in the diet). But everything is much simpler: people lose weight due to a calorie deficit, while it should be small.