Low Calorie Diets to Lose Weight

Dear Editor,

What are your thoughts on using low calorie diets to lose weight. I've notice from previous articles that you emphasize burning more calories than you take in to lose weight. Seems to me like low calorie diets are the answer.

    ~~ Selma

Dear Selma,

Great question. You're right, we do emphasis eating less calories than you burn to lose weight. But where we differ from many diet plans is that we recommend you reduce overall calorie consumption by no more than 30%.

Most people make the mistake of skipping meals and attempting to stick to a starvation diet to lose weight. These diets always backfire because diets too low in calorie will eventually cause you to binge or over-eat.

When you don't eat enough food or wait too long between meals, you get hunger attacks, which will cause you to eat junk food instead of healthy meals. Also, diets too low in calories will cause your metabolism to slow down considerably.

That's why we recommend women stay between 1200 and 1400 calories per day (for the average size women) and men eat between 1500 and 2000 calories per day to lose weight.

You may initially lose weight faster on a very low calorie diet but your metabolism will slow down significantly, and you'll stop losing weight. Maintaining a more sensible diet, as we suggest, will help you lose weight at a comfortable pace for a much longer period of time.
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