Stop Restricting Your Diet and Fasting – It’s Damaging Your Body and Leading to Rebound Weight Gain
Intermittent fasting for weight loss is a path many weight loss enthusiasts have walked.
When it comes to weight loss, the first thought is to eat less. Even if you're eating with friends, they'll often say to you, 'You're trying to lose weight, why are you still eating so much?'
There are many celebrity weight loss methods online, such as eating one grain of Lao Gan Ma every day, eating two cucumbers a day, or even not eating anything for one day. Let's not talk about whether you can stick to it, even if you do, it won't last long and your body will be wrecked.
1Intermittent fasting is harmful to the body
People who adopt intermittent fasting actually understand, because they think eating very little will result in weight loss. They will definitely lose weight initially, but the next thing waiting for them might be that they will become heavier and harder to lose weight. Of course, unrealistic fasting is difficult to maintain long-term, and it's easy to damage the body over time.
Lowering immunity: Fasting will stimulate the levels of cortisol hormone, cortisol hormone will activate energy storage to enhance your combat effectiveness, but at the same time it will shut down other skills, such as affecting the normal operation of the immune system.
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Accelerated aging: Excessive release of cortisol hormone will cause cell death, accelerate the aging process, such as muscle weakness, skin wrinkles, vision and hearing impairment.
'Big Auntie' goes out: Due to severe malnutrition caused by fasting, protein intake is severely insufficient, causing ovarian function decline, endocrine disorders, irregular menstruation, and even amenorrhea.
2Intermittent fasting has a super high rebound rate
As early as 50 years ago, the famous Minnesota starvation study proved that fasting will cause metabolic slowdown. In this study, participants reduced their energy intake by 30% each day, about 1500 calories per day, these people felt cold and tired and hungry, and their basic metabolism also decreased by 30%. When they returned to normal diet, the weight they lost in the experiment also came back.
Long-term low-calorie diet is not advisable. From a safety perspective, diets below 1200 calories cannot be used by individuals, and diets below 800 calories are even more difficult to use, as they are very prone to malnutrition and can cause obvious health damage.
3Be cautious about intermittent fasting, weight loss still needs to choose a reliable way
If you don't want weight loss to become more and more difficult, don't do unrealistic fasting, intermittent fasting is irreversible damage to the body. Many people regain weight after successfully losing weight and then start unrestrained dieting, which makes weight gain repeat.
Reasonable exercise plus scientific diet is the most reliable way to lose weight. If you want to have food accompany you on your future journey, instead of worrying about eating one more bite every day; if you want to develop a physique that can consume two bites of food by itself, instead of always walking between extreme dieting and overeating, I hope everyone can combine exercise and diet.
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