2. Mix up your calories
If you’re like most people, when you want to lose weight you’ll start off by dramatically cutting a lot of calories from your diet. This creates a calorie deficit that can eventually backfire and discourage you even further. If you want to make lasting positive changes concerning your body, you’ll need to do some research and learn more about the inner workings of your metabolism.
It’s natural for your body to resist the changes you’re trying to make to your diet. After all, it has been used to a certain lifestyle. Reducing your calorie intake leads to increasing hunger cravings, since your body is not receiving the nutrients it needs and was used to getting regularly. You’ll be fine at the beginning, but later on as the hunger cravings increase, you could face some difficulties keeping them under control and you might end up overeating. Starving your body is simply not a good way to go.
But the real problem is that after a few weeks of rigorous dieting, the body will adapt by decreasing the production of your thyroid hormones, which in turn will slow down your metabolism, making it even harder to burn off calories. On the other hand, these stressful changes will push your levels of insulin and cortisol really high, making your body store more fat. And the answer to this problem is not reducing the calorie intake even further – that will only make things worse.