The low-calorie high-protein diet

low-calorie high-protein diet It is amazing how many people try to screw their bodies, even if it were a rebellious child to keep at bay. Then something doesn’t work, so I get yet another email from a desperate girl because she is on a low-calorie (much less than a thousand calories) and high-protein diet, but after the initial pounds lost , she understood that either she will always feed herself like this to stay in shape or as soon as he leaves this suicidal diet , he will end up with double the pounds . When I wrote about her telling her the enormous disadvantages of such a regime she told me that she knew everything, sure, but that she didn’t trust her.
She told her to go back to a balanced diet, play sports and throw the scales (or if she can, ignore it), three things she obviously won’t do.

Now I try to explain the reasons, starting from things known and supported by certain data, why a too rigid low-calorie diet does not work, and a high-protein diet does not work either. Imagine a combination of the two:
– Most people today eat a protein and low carb diet to lose weight . But keep getting fat. Ask yourself why.
I know so many people who got fatter after the Dukan that they should just ask for damages. In particular, if it is true that proteins allow us to maintain lean mass and increase energy expenditure because they are more difficult to digest, it is also true that a protein-only diet causes imbalances such as to invalidate the metabolic advantages of proteins alone, which work in the short term.Not only that: the body compensates by filling up with waste, the liver and kidneys get tired . But sooner or later we will have to go back to eating carbohydrates, and our body “remembers”, so the first carbohydrates will tend to pack them as fat and not as energy to burn. Not stupid, the body, but above all more and more resistant to insulin.

– if you need to go into a calorie deficit to lose weight, i.e. spending more calories than we introduce, the great gimmick everyone comes up with is reducing calories. Until you get to the girl of seven, eight hundred calories every day, so scared that she thinks she can kill herself if she sees an extra kilo (I imagine even water rations), without thinking about the fact that she is forcing herself to continuous sacrifices but does not get a greater weight loss, slow down metabolism. This may be why a little boy was hospitalized because he had dropped to 50 calories a day . He said he couldn’t lose weight, but he went straight to the hospital.
This is because the less we eat the more our body, which can cope with fasting and famine, he thinks we are at war, not on a diet, and acts accordingly: survivor mode.