Diet Mistakes
What Is The Biggest Mistake Of All?

Do you know the biggest diet mistake?

What is the one thing you miss when you want to lose weight? What is your biggest barrier to losing weight? The source of failure? The giant roadblock? The elephant in the middle of the road?

Here's what it is--the reason you haven't been able to get rid of that extra weight you hate: Nobody loses weight on a diet.

That's right. Nobody loses weight on a diet. Look around. Nothing could be more obvious.

Millions of diets everywhere. People are getting fatter all the time.

A diet is when you cut calories far below what you need, and you do that in order to lose weight.

You know what I mean. Sure, you can take off some weight for a while. But it just comes back.

When you cut calories too low your body thinks it is starving. Actually, it is starving. So it holds on to calories.

This is a natural protective mechanism. Your body evolved through periods of history when food was not plentiful. There were periods of drought and starvation and hunger. Many people died.

But the ones that didn't die were your ancestors. They had bodies that could go without eating for long periods of time. They passed that ability on to you. And now you can go long periods of time without eating.

What happens when you diet?

If you don't eat, or if you restrict your intake on a severe diet, your body senses that it is starving. And it shuts down. It turns down the heat. It conserves calories. So you hardly use any energy.

That is why you can go on a starvation diet, you lose some weight at first, but then it tapers off. And not only that, but you are trying to lose fat, but you are actually losing muscle, and that only makes the situation worse.

And after a while you can't take it. And you get hungrier and hungrier. So finally you give up.

But then you go back to your regular eating. But your body doesn't go back to the way it was before. Now you are holding on to calories.

So you gain more weight. You eat the same as before but now you gain more weight. Your body stays in the starvation mode, and it is still holding on to calories.

Add that to the fact that as you get older you need fewer calories, because you are not growing, not building new muscle, not as active, and you have the recipe for weight gain and obesity.

No, nobody loses weight on a diet.

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