Why is Eating Less the Wrong Way to Lose Weight?

 

People often have a misconception that eating less will lead to weight loss. This is not true at all. Unless you’re morbidly obese, it is eating right not eating less that leads to weight loss. Most people who are overweight are not necessarily big eaters. They might even eat less than their fitter peers. But the difference is which one is eating more healthy? 

In fact, if you starve yourself, you might end up gaining more fat instead of losing it. Do you know why? This is because our bodies have a very sophisticated inner mechanism that is capable of protecting itself from starvation. The human body has evolved over a long period of time to be able to protect itself from droughts, famines or natural calamities that lead to a shortage of food.

So, you cannot make your body use its stored fat by starving yourself. When you starve yourself, your body goes into an energy-saving mode to preserve its fat stores. It stops spending excessive energy (calories) and starts to hoard the small amount of incoming energy (calories). Your body is a very complex system that can find ways to survive even on a meagre amount of food. 

Restricting calories is actually counterproductive and not a good way to lose weight because your body has an existing system to preserve itself from starving to death. If you restrict your calories to achieve weight loss, you are in for a big surprise. Your body is like a storage unit for fat. When there’s a calorie deficiency that is lower than the maintenance level, it automatically switches to fat-storing mode and starts saving as many calories as possible by lowering the BMR.

This strategy of preserving as many calories as possible in case of calorie deficiency, is defined as starvation mode. So cutting calories for weight loss is not a good idea to lose fat.

In fact, calorie restriction might lead to muscle loss rather than fat loss. If you keep cutting too many calories for too long, your body will start getting its energy by eating up your muscles.

For example:

Let’s say Person A weighs 80kg and wants to lose 15kg. Following a strict diet of 2 to 3 months, ‘A’ was able to achieve his goal. But, he will notice that even after reaching his weight goal, he still has a lot of belly fat and does not look as toned and fit as he imagined.

Want to know the reason why? This is because, out of that 15kgs, ‘A’ lost 11kgs of muscle and only 4kgs of fat.

Many people who achieve their goal, tend to slip back to their old routine. If ‘A’ returned to his old pre-weight loss routine, all the weight he lost will come rushing back along with a few extra kilos. And what he will gain back is fat. Meaning, he lost 11kgs of muscle and gained 15kgs of fat. So basically his fitness will be even worse than before.

This does not mean that you should not care about calories at all and eat huge quantities of healthy food. Even with healthy foods you need to choose the right portion size. This is far more practical than calorie counting.

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