Is it impossible to lose weight quickly?

diet loss of weight What do we lose when we lose weight quickly, within a few weeks or even worse in a few days? Everyone will answer: water and muscles, and even if in reality we lose a part of fat anyway, the cliché that if you lose weight quickly you risk losing only fluids and glycogen reserves (which the body takes from the muscles) is to everyone. truth effects. Wanting to give you an idea of what happens when we try to lose weight quickly, I have divided the behavior of our body into four different stages whenever we try to lose weight or with some drastic regimen.
WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR BODY WHEN WE TRY TO LOSE WEIGHT HURRY?

1) Usually sudden weight lossit is due to a strictly low-calorie diet or a regimen that requires some kind of metabolic effort (ketogenic diet, intermittent fasting, protein diet). In the first days of the diet, our body reacts by getting rid of the less necessary things: water and muscles. Fat stores are a safe area of our body, a kind of oasis of fat that the body keeps aside for as long as it can, trying to give up everything else.
2) If the diet lasts a week or two, the body quickly gets rid of something that it can always recover: liquids. And the glycogen reserves, which will resume as soon as our diet returns to normal, making sure that we assimilate more sugars and fats. This does not mean that our beautiful musculature will return to its place. In this period there is a “hunger” for fats and sugars, what the body takes back it invests not in muscles, but in other fat deposits. That is why it is said that diets make us fatter and fatter.

3) If the crash diet lasts a month or more, the metabolism slows down and the body, before losing his fat reserves, he gradually “renounces” a series of things that are all in all less useful than others and which however require an energy expenditure which is part of our basal metabolism. For example, proper cellular hydration, hair and nail health, sexual health, fertility, immune defenses.
4) What about the fat? A recent research has established that real fat takes months to be eliminated and reduced. According to a study by researchers from the National Institutes for Health released just recently, to lose fat, that is, to really lose weight, the body takes about six months to a year. Before then it is impossible to lose weight quickly or at least what we lose is not the famous oasis of fat. Up to these fateful six months the weight fluctuates, the metabolism tries to adapt, and the more drastic the diet, the more the metabolism will slow down to the detriment of overall health. Precisely for this reason, according to the researchers, it would be necessary to start giving correct information, unhinging the concept of rapid diet and rapid weight loss. All the weight lost quickly is then quickly regained, they explain, in these first six months of adaptation.
So? Few and healthy habits to carry on with a lot of patience, expecting slow but significant improvements over a year or two.