THE WORST MISTAKE WHEN WE WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT

If you tried many times to lose weight and failed. This is a great video for you, because it explains what is the most common mistake that people make that actually prevents weight loss and yet it is part of 95% of the diets that are recommended as a mechanism to lose weight. Stay and find out. Hi I'm Dr. Larrosa and today we are going to see what is the main mistake that people make when they are trying to do a diet to lose weight and that at the same time not only leads to not losing weight, but also ruins your metabolism. There is a typical process that everyone knows because a nutritionist told them to, because they went to a self-help group, because they wanted to lose weight with a diet they followed. From the internet or from some other means. And you found yourself. Surely, wherever you looked for a caloric type diet, they told you look, you have to lower the amount of calories for you to lose weight. Indeed you do.

And you listened to him because it sounded logical and you said well. Fewer calories means I'm going to lose weight. If I lose that many calories per day I'm going to lose that many pounds per day. Unfortunately that's not the case. And that is a huge mistake that people make when they try to lose weight. Let's see why you do a diet that normally would be at 2000 calories and let's suppose you want to lose weight, then normally someone tells you look, you have to reduce the amount of calories you are consuming by 50, 20, 30%, it doesn't matter what percentage it is. Let's say it's 25% to make the calculation easier. Then you take it into account and start consuming 1500 calories per day. The difference is in what process takes place in your organism at the moment you are going to start doing this, your organism does not interpret this as Ah, I am getting ready for the summer and it wants to look nice to go to the beach. The person. Your brain interprets it in the following way your brain says look, there's no food in the environment and so this person is reducing the amount of intake.

This means that we have to adapt to this new amount of intake of 1500 calories, in this case per day. So you start doing that diet and you start to reduce the amount of kilos you have on you. If you started with 100 kilos, you will probably find that during the first or second month you start to lose about 345 or six kilos until you reach a certain moment in which the difficulty to lose weight increases and you gradually reach a plateau from which you can not get out and you can not manage to lose the kilos you have left to lose. What is the factor that generates this plateau? It is the following, which is when I reduce my intake and my brain interprets that there is no food. The environment, the way to compensate is to reduce metabolism. Your brain says if there's not enough food in the environment and we do this for a long time, we're going to starve. So the solution it finds is to reduce metabolism to match your metabolism to the new caloric intake. What does this mean?

It means that you are going to start reducing the tissues that consume a lot of energy per day, such as muscle, and you are going to start saving the tissues that accumulate energy and do not require much expenditure, such as fat. Then you will probably lose weight. But if you make a good measurement of body fat percentage in that period of time, you will realize that what usually happens is that we increase body fat in relative value. This means that the body fat percentage actually increases, even though you would imagine the opposite, so you lost muscle, you gained body fat to lose a small amount of pounds. You reached this plateau that everybody remembers when they try to go on a diet and this plateau appears in our life, not to make our life more complicated, but because really this drop in metabolism that your own body generates in front of this caloric diet that you are doing, reaches the point where it compensates or equals the amount of caloric intake that you are doing. This means that if I lower my caloric nap I will also lower my metabolism.

Once that evens out, I stop losing weight and I have two choices or I go back to making an even lower intake. This is quite common in some ways to go on a more extreme and even more stupid caloric diet. As I see it, it does lead to continuing to lose weight, but then reaching a new plateau. Or you may have stayed at the plateau, try to sustain it on your diet until a moment comes when frustration reaches a peak. You throw the diet away and go back to eating the way you were eating before. The problem is that if you weighed 100 kilos and you lost in that period of time six seven kilos, in the period in which you go back to eating as before, you not only put on the kilos you lost, but you put on extra kilos and you end that process with 113 100 405 kilos. Why does this happen? Because your metabolism dropped to match that drop in calories that you were receiving and you went back to eating exactly the same as before.

But now you have a slower metabolism.

You will have more surplus, more excess calories, even though you are eating the same amount per day. Why is that? Because your body consumes less. Because it has tissue that expends fewer calories per minute. This is one of the most frequent mistakes in the history of the whole last century and unfortunately, at the beginning of this century, in terms of the mechanism that people use to lose weight, what would be the correct one? The correct one is the opposite. The correct one is I am never going to be able to decrease the amount of body weight that I have in my body. Just by lowering my intake in this caloric way, what I have to do is increase my metabolism. What are the easy mechanisms I can use to increase my metabolism? The number one for sure is the one in the video above. I'm going to leave you the link in the description above, which is intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting allows you to increase your metabolism without changing your intake. It allows you, with the same amount of calories per day, to increase your metabolism and burn fat without changing much more than that.

The second mechanism that you can use is high intensity interval training, high intensity interval training, which I will explain later, has a very simple mechanism of using metabolic acceleration through certain variations that will happen in your body at the hormonal level. Because I'm going to make an effort that will go from maximum intensity to minimum intensity, and this fluctuation is what makes your body accelerate metabolically. These are two of the examples that you can use without even changing your diet in order to increase your metabolism and lose weight. The secret is never to starve yourself. That doesn't work in the long run. That's why, in intermittent fasting, for example, one of the sensations that people experience is that the feeling of hunger starts to go nuclear at the moment of time when you normally eat. So, my idea, my advice, based on the scientific evidence that exists today, is never going to be not to eat in normal quantities, it is going to fluctuate the type of food you are eating.

Correct the moment in which you eat and correct the type of exercises you do, which are all factors that as a mechanism have in common one thing in common which is the acceleration of your metabolism. That is the key for you to lose weight in a sustained way.