Some people those who need the slimming result in shorter period practicing crash diet regime. At last they found it were unhappy result! So before you decide to plunge into a crash diet, here are some facts that you need to know.
A crash diet is one of the most restrictive types of weight loss plans that you can follow. It involves drastically cutting back on the amount of calories and fat that you take in on a daily basis. Similar to a starvation diet, a crash diet is often paired with other weight loss "fixes," including extreme exercise routines and the use of diuretics or diet pills.
Practicing crash diet, you will probably notice that you do lose a significant amount of weight in the first week or so. However, this weight loss isn't true. This is because low-calorie diets cause the body to burn up excess glycogen, a type of glucose that absorbs excess fluid inside the body.
Many followers of crash diets even end up putting back on all of the weight they lost, along with additional pounds. This is known as the yo-yo diet effect.
In order to support all of the functions that your body performs on a daily basis, your body needs to burn a certain amount of calories. The rate at which your body burns calories is known as your metabolism.
As time running and you're taking lesser calories, your body actually adjusts its metabolism, so that it burns fewer calories in order to perform all of its necessary bodily functions.
At last, what's are the risks of crash diet?
- Yo-yo effect: You're body will takes fewer calories for you to gain weight, making it more and more likely that you will put on weight at the end of your diet.
- Mental Health Problems: You may find yourself feeling more irritable or depressed than usual when you are on a crash diet. Crash diets can also set people up for serious mental health disorders, particularly eating disorders like anorecia and bulimia.
Nutritional Deficiency
Long-term crash dieting can result in serious nutritional deficiencies, as a result of eating a poor variety of foods. In particular, crash dieters are putting themselves at risk for:
- iron deficiency anemia
- vitamin B12 deficiency
- potassium and sodium deficiency
Potassium and sodium are electrolytes that used by your body to ensure proper nerve and muscle function. They play a particularly important role in regulating the way that your heart beats. If potassium and sodium levels become low enough, you could suffer from a heart attack.
Avoid crash diet, loss weight by healthy way:
- Don't cut back on calories too quickly. Instead, slowly reduce calories so that your body metabolism doesn't slow down.
- Take care of your high fat food intake
- Take more fruits, vegetables and other high fiber contain food
- Replace your diaries with low fat milk or yogurt if possible
- Take care of junk food and bottled drink intake as it was high calories
- Take enought fresh / mineral water (6 ~ 8 glasses daily)
- Make sure you get appropriate vitamin and mineral supplement
