Starving yourself to get slimmer is not the way to get through this old-time blunder. As a matter of fact it never worked. Why would you risk on the joy of living life healthily where you can go on a diet and enjoying your food altogether. And what's more, you can even stay in shape and look fabulous!
Often than not, people would get around to the wrong ideas of dieting, in order for fast results. You could be categorized in this group of people if you:
- Tend to deprive yourself from breakfast, lunch and even dinner, without even bothering on mentioning supper
- Avoidance of any kind of food possible
- Go about in the supermarket with the intention on getting something good for the diet but end up going about looking at the calories of all the foodstuff that you have handpicked earlier. In the end, leaving the supermarket empty handed with the single idea that anything with calories will make you fatter. (Sad, really)
- Staying away even from drinking water
- Incredible increase of craving levels
Starvation diet, the more common name for it would be crash diet. It is an extreme diet which practically restricts calorie intake in order to achieve rapid weight loss. But often little those who opt for this option would realize that the duration of the effect do not last long. The aftermath could be even worse than the individual pre-condition. This is because the fact that it could lead to malnutrition, and in worse cases to some of the severe health blunder such as anorexia nervosa or even bulimia.
You may have heard of the term "yo-yo effect" that accompanies this dieting method. It is a condition where a person tends to eat more than usual after they have stop the crash diet, resulting to tremendous weigh gain that could sometimes surpass the normal weight that they use to have before they even start the strict deprivation diet. This is primarily evolutionary trait of human being. Why? Imagine a person who had been deserted on an island without food or anything else to eat, once he was saved and able to live the normal life, taking in the effect in times of being famish before: they eat upon cravings after cravings. That is, perhaps the logical part of it. People who had been food deprived would most naturally craved to regain both the weight that was lost together with additional weight as if to prepare themselves for another famine attack.
Starvation diet will cost the body to prepare for famine that actually conserves energy more than the usual state, causing the body to burn calorie more poorly than it had been if it were in a normal state. There won't be much of muscle building that could enhance energy burning, instead the body system will eventually slow down and fail, accompanied by extreme dehydration (remember that some even cut their water intake) and muscle spasms caused by electrolyte imbalance of which occurred as your nutrients level dropped.
YES, all of us want to look good and be healthy, and crash diet or starving yourself is certainly not the road to take. Think again when you think of not eating just to shed all the fat and kilos on that weight. The damage it does to your body may be irreversible. Be wise and eat right.
