Eating Less is not the Answer

Simple mathematics does not apply to body weight and composition. If it does, simply eating less would all make us lose fat and become lean.

However, it simply does not follow that if you eat more calories than you burn, you will store the excess as body fat and if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose fat.

It is only at the initial stages of a calorie restricted diet that weight loss occurs rapidly; however, weight loss slows down and eventually stops. This happens because the human body has developed a weight-regulating mechanism that recognizes when there is a fuel shortage (carbohydrates, proteins and fats) thereby automatically triggering a decrease in energy expenditure to protect the human body.

Physicians and fitness experts call this survival mechanism the starvation response.