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RE: The most important secret to lose weight!
It's nice that you share the actual truth. It's also true that slow weight loss is more sustainable long term wise.
The thing I don't agree on is the whole jojo-effect thing. You won't regain weight faster because you dieted too fast. Most people that do these fast crash diets loose like 20 kg, which decreases their maintenance calories by like 300-400 calories, so they need to eat less to maintain their new eight then they hat to eat before. Also crash dieters often don't establish new habits. Because of this they often fall back to old eating habits that got them fat in the first place and thus they regain the weight that they lost during the diet.
The body switches to an emergency programme when it receives far too little nutrients for a long time. Your body starts a struggle for survival and does not care about your wish of a sixpack. It begins to drastically reduce its energy consumption. Muscles, for example, are broken down because they consume too much energy. Furthermore, the body stores every calorie it receives as safely as possible and tries to store every calorie in every conceivable way. The hormone balance is also going crazy, and everything's on distress.
If you now start again to exercise your original eating habits or to take your "normally necessary" calories, the body will take a certain amount of time to fully adapt and in this time the person will increase massively as the basic needs have decreased significantly.
Thats the reason people mostly gain much fat after their crashdiets