Why doesn’t the protein diet work? There are people who lose weight more easily by doing protein diets, and people who instead show some resistance to the protein diet , which is the same difficulty in losing weight that they would do with any diet. Too bad that in the first case there are people who, after having successfully made the protein diet, regain weight in the medium or long term, or from a few months to a few years later. Here are eight points why the protein diet may not work as well as you hoped.
WHY DOES THE PROTEIN DIET NOT WORK? 8 REASONS.
1) The best protein diet is one with a good percentage of fat, such as Atkins.Low-fat diets plus protein and low-calorie stress unnecessarily the metabolism, which can rebel by going into “survivor” mode already after the first week, and the body, which reacts with defined symptoms, when they are severe, ” caribou”. Not that a high-fat, high-protein diet is good for you, huh.
2) The protein diet is not made for vegetarians.With all the health consequences that an enormous intake of processed meat and fish (cold cuts, even lean, canned tuna, bresaola, surimi and salmon) and of farmed meat (chicken) and dairy products has a negative effect on health, poisoning the organism with excess salt, excess additives, hormones and pollutants. All things that make you fat. Conversely, vegetable proteins often contain a dose of carbohydrates: think of legumes. Hence, a vegetarian protein diet is not as protein as a traditional one. In fact it is healthier! (see EcoAtkins)

3) Animal proteins, primarily meat and dairy products, increase insulin, just like foods with a high glycemic content.In fact, it is insulin that takes care of converting carbohydrates and proteins into fats. Anyone who thinks of using ketogenesis with a protein diet is very wrong, because eating large quantities of high-protein foods means eating meals with a high insulin load. So stop bingeing on skim milk and lean ricotta, steak and chicken.
4) It’s true, proteins take more energy expenditure to be digested: however, a diet of lean proteins only gets tired soon. Which means eating more to satisfy yourself, and having to consume large quantities of water to be able to digest all those proteins. And here the energy expenditure given by the protein diet is nullified by the illusion of being able to eat to your fill.
5) The metabolic deception of forcing the body to convert proteins into energy in an exclusive way soon comes into its own: the stress on the metabolism causes greater resistance to real weight loss, that of body fat, while instead breaking down the muscle glycogen resources, resulting in a loss of lean mass.
6) The body works thanks to carbohydrates . When it is deprived of them, the body undergoes a sort of “genetic” modification, indeed, tending to desire more foods that contain sugar and fats and to convert them more easily into fat stores. This is why those who go on a protein diet then have these uncontrollable cravings for carbohydrates, and put on weight more easily when they finally eat them, for example during maintenance.
7) The protein diet “succeeds” well or better only the first time. Trying and trying again is harmful and useless.
8) A true protein diet is not harmful to health if done in fifteen days. Yes, basically it has to be a lightning diet. How much fat do you think you can lose on a lightning diet?