January 23rd, 2010 by 
Carrie Spry
Calories are not the enemy. Most people believe that eating fewer calories will result in weight loss. This is not exactly true. If you are eating 2500 calories per day and drop down to 1500 calories per, you won\’t necessarily lose weight. If you cut your calories by too much, then you will reach a dieting plateau; a point where you will no longer loose weight.
What makes a person go on a diet in the first place? Well, it usually builds up to a specific point, or several, and one day, you look in the mirror and enough is enough. You are going to lose weight if it kills you. Your clothes are getting too tight and you are disappointed and frustrated with what you see. Does this seem familiar to you? I was once in your shoes and am finally feeling good about myself. Anyways, on this day you are particularly motivated and decide to go on a diet.
Today is the day of new beginnings. You start by skipping breakfast and decide that you will have an early lunch, or brunch as they call it. Kill two birds with one stone. When it gets close to your next meal, all you can think about is food. You begin to get a little shaky as your body is not used to going this long without food.
By now you feel miserable, but still bravely tell yourself that you can do this. You don\’t want to be a quitter and you want to lose weight. You must keep on. So now for lunch you decide on a salad or some kind of fruit. Or maybe a small portion of something else. You\’re still convinced that eating less will get you to your goal.
By dinner, your hungry, tired and chances are you have a headache. You begin thinking, \”Do you really want to do this everyday? Do you want to fight against yourself?\” You are still so determined that you decide to stick with it for the rest of the day.
If you are really brave, you may have held off for a week, but chances are you have gone back to eating the same way after only a few days. Even if you were able to stick with it for a few days or weeks, you will not have lost any weight. Well, any weight worth losing. You may have made matters worse though. Since your body now thinks it is starving, it will begin to store every calorie that you eat.
Although you may have lost a few pounds it was likely just water weight, not real fat loss. And once you begin to eat normally, the water will just be gained back again.
This is why if you keep trying to starve yourself, you will never lose weight. Starving yourself is not the answer. If you are serious about weight loss, you need to start giving your body the right types of calories in the right doses on the right days.
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