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Is a diet necessary to lose weight?

Is a diet necessary to lose weight?

You can lose weight without going on exhausting diets

It turns out that you can find a way out without going on the exhausting diets that your friends so recommend. To do this, you need to look inside our body and understand how it works, to grasp what we generally understand by losing weight. Shall we try?

So, a person gets all the necessary amount of energy from what they eat, which is why the need for food is human need number one. However, it is important to note that to support physical activity, the body uses only that part of the food that it needs, while the excess is precisely our fat deposits, which our body, like a thrifty housewife, stores for a 'rainy day'. The body will use these reserves only when it experiences a lack of incoming energy.

This is where the danger of diets lies. When artificially restricting incoming energy, especially when done abruptly, you can put the body into a state of stress. Hence depression, fainting, and other consequences of 'friend-recommended' diets. Of course, I do not want to say that all diets are absolutely useless and only exhaust the body, not at all.

Now let's think about how to more naturally get rid of excess weight without restricting yourself? The answer is obvious: you need not to restrict yourself, but to load yourself, within reasonable limits, of course. That is, with the same amount of incoming energy, additional physical activity will force the body to use its reserves.

Morning exercises, an evening run, a fitness center in the middle of the day – and eat as much as you used to. The result will be the same and will be noticeable in 2-3 weeks. It is necessary to take into account that the intensity of burning your own reserves depends on age, gender, and occupation.

On average, the energy you expend per day should be 700 kcal more than you take in, thus the body will have to use 70 grams of fat deposits per day, which is 3-4 kg per month. You just need to take a pen and calculate the calorie content of the food you consume per day.