By: Sean Nalewanyj
Submitted: 2009-12-18 00:11:16 | Word Count: 1061
Ninety eight percent of fat loss diet plans fail as a result of 3 main reasons.
1) 98% of fat loss diet plans fail because times have changed, but our bodies have not.
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Early humans were hunters and gatherers, and our bodies still function as though we don't have reliable food sources. During those times, there was no such thing as a drive-thru, where you could stop for a quick snack, and no refrigerators filled with food, 10 feet away.
In fact, our ancestors had to work very hard to find food; the alternative was not eating at all. At times, they would have to exist on very little or no nutrition.
To get by, their metabolisms slowed down and their bodies stored calories as fat when food was plentiful; they could then use this as a back-up energy source when meals were few and far in between.
While most of us living in the developed world no longer need this survival mechanism, it still remains.
Thus, if you attempt to lose weight with a diet plan that substantially reduces your caloric intake, your survival mechanism will kick in and work against you.
In this mode, your metabolism naturally slows down, and you begin to store more fat while burning less of it. But that's not all! Your body will also break down much of your lean muscle tissue.
2) 98% of fat loss diet plans increase our hunger pangs, which is what makes them fail.
(Not to mention that you'll be thinking about food non-stop)
Do you really think that you can keep living in that state for long?
Of course not, and until you begin eating regularly again, the stabbing hunger pains from these fat loss diet plans will be constant.
I don't personally know of anyone who can maintain that permanently, and I would guess that 99% or more of the population can't either.
How can you expect to lose weight and keep it off when you're on fat loss diet plans that just don't work and are impossible to maintain?
I don't think so!
3) 98% of the fat loss diet plans fail because reasons 1 and 2 work together to create situations that ensure failure.
Even after you stop following one of these low-calorie fat loss diet plans, you'll be in for an even bigger surprise.
Your body has now been trained to store more fat and burn less of it, as a consequence of keeping it starved for long periods of time. Eventually, when you resume your normal diet, you will end up piling on more pounds than before. (I'm sure you've heard of "yo-yo dieting"!)
To add to it, any weight that you lost when on one of these fat loss diet plans was most probably retained water and lean muscle mass.
You might have reduced the number on the scale, but you didn't actually lose any body fat.
With all of these factors working against traditional fat loss diet plans, it is no wonder that 98% of them fail.
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