Crash Dieting to Lose FAT!

The built-in protective mechanism that ensured survival during a famine now works against a woman which she tries to starve herself in a misguided attempt to lose weight. The body cannot tell the difference between famine and a self-imposed “crash diet”. When you go on a starvation diet, biochemical changes are set into motion.

One of the first changes is the activation and multiplication of the fat-storing lipogenic enzymes. Worse, the fat cells become less efficient at losing fat. Some studies have shown that sever dieting can reduce fat-releasing lipolytic enzymes by 50 percent. Most of the weight lost on a crash diet comes from the lean parts of the body such as water and muscle. The haggard faces and soft, flabby bodies of women (men: take not, it can also happen to you, too) who have lost large amounts of weight on starvation diets are the result of this loss of lean body mass.

Moreover, since there is less lean body tissue, the body now burns fewer calories. The weight is regained in the form of more fat. Even though the body eventually recovers the lost lean tissue, the damage (gain in fat weight) has been done.