3 Reasons Why Fast Weight Loss Never Works

3 Reasons Why Fast Weight Loss Never Works

We see it over and over again – people want to lose weight.  They don’t feel great about how they look and so they go to a program that promises fast and easy results.  Sometimes, those programs even deliver – in the short term.

The problem with fast weight loss (and the reason it never works in the long run) is that your body isn’t designed to lose weight fast.  As soon as you try to do it, some significant changes happen in your body.

1.  Your Hormones are signaled by your fat

·      Not all body fat is bad for you, and ALL of it has a purpose.

·      Stored body fat is in direct proportion to a hormone called leptin.  This hormone controls appetite, modulates metabolism and promotes fat burning.

·      When fat levels drop quickly, leptin levels drop quickly as well, and your body is triggered to believe you are starving.  That shuts down systems and makes your body do everything it can to conserve energy and stop you from losing more weight.

2.  Nutritional deficiency

·      Restrictive, low-calorie diets are usually deficient in necessary vitamins/minerals.

·      Lack of vitamins leads to unhealthy skin, hair, and nails… along with a suppressed immune system.  That means you’re more likely to get, and stay, sick.

·      Lack of minerals can lead to irregular heartbeat, muscle cramps and loss of bone mass.

3.  Psychological Complications

·      Severe restriction is not sustainable in the long-term, and is known to lead dieters into a binge/restrict cycle – the body fighting with the mind to try to get enough nutrients to survive.

·      This cycle very often leads to severely disordered thinking about food and weight, and frequently into eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

·      Restrictive diets can become socially excluding – you’re so worried about your food that you’re not enjoying life with your family and friends.

4. Ideal Protein Protocol includes compulsory vitamins and essential amino acids to protect your body and provide all the necessary nutrients it needs.  Using our nutrient-rich supplements such as Natura Mult-Vita, Natural Calcium & Magnesium, Natura Potassium and Natura Omega-3 Plus, key ingredients in muscle building and electolytes. These supplements replace those normally found in foods restricted on Ideal Protein protocol.  

How do we encourage the body to burn its fat reserves, but support its muscle mass reserves if both are depleted simultaneously? First, Ideal Protein foods are made with high quality protein. The quality of protein used in Ideal Protein diet products has an impact on effective protein absorption…the lower the quality, the lower the absorption. If protein absorption is low, you may not be able to protect your muscle mass and thus you will burn muscle along with fat. If you lose muscle while dieting, you may impair your ability to burn calories post-diet, as your body uses muscle mass to burn calories.

5. DoTERRA has amazing vitamins.  Ask Judi if these would work for you?

This doesn’t mean weight loss and a life of healthy maintenance is impossible – it just means you can’t do it by buying into the marketing promises put out by businesses intent on making a quick profit.  Fast weight loss harms your body, it harms your mind, AND in 97% of cases it leads to regaining not only the weight you lost, but more weight on top of it (that’s leptin at work, trying to keep you safe!).

Want to lose weight, and keep it off for good?  Check out my program, where we focus on establishing Healthy Habits with Ideal Protein and creating a roadmap to sane, slow, sustainable weight loss and lifetime weight maintenance.  [Judi's Studio & Health Spa]