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What is low calorie dieting? Mainly it’s feeding your body with low calorie food so it can then burn stored fat. Calories fuel our body so it can undertake daily activities. When we give it less calories it can then turn to the stored fat to get more fuel, and as a result we lose weight. Truth is that it’s not that easy to achieve. If you don’t know how to feed your body with the right food at the right intervals, at the end you will regain all the weight, damage your metabolism and cause unhealthy weight loss of water and muscle.

The solution is to understand your metabolism. Before you can achieve fat burning you must understand how your metabolism works. When you go on a low calorie starving mode, your metabolism will automatically adapt.

Consulting a Physician is essential for people who wish to go on a low calorie diet. Serious health implication might arise when taken in longer doses. Going on a low calorie diet slows down your entire body metabolism. It makes it progressively difficult to obtaining weight loss. There is high ratio of failure versus success but still, people continue to try one diet regimen after another hoping that one may be worth the risk. 
When a person undergoing a diet persists longer with self-imposed starvation, the body starts to break muscle tissues down for fuel. When this happens, the protein releases nitrogen which your body will quickly wash away by emission of water from the tissue cells. This causes an instant decrease in water weight and an eminent weight loss. On the other hand, muscle and water loss is nothing to be happy about. As soon as you have something to drink, water weight will be easily regained and the muscle you lost may cause havoc on your body metabolism for a long period of time. Our muscles are metabolically active tissues. They have a need for a certain amount of calories every day to maintain themselves. As a result, you burn more calories the more muscles you comprise. When your body breaks down muscle, your need for calories lessen as well. Now with those muscles gone, you will have lesser amount of calorie requirement for a day and that will make your weight loss maintenance even harder.

An active lifestyle is the only solution to this problem. Have yourself do aerobic exercises, a healthy diet, and a solid weight training program. A healthy diet will keep your metabolism in its peak with around 4 to 5 meals a day. Base your diet around fresh fruits and vegetables plus lean protein and whole grains. No off-limit foods but avoid sweets and junk food or just take them in small quantities. A healthy diet is permanent and much more realistic. It is not something that you engage with in a week or two and quit while you are at it.