Do you know what the rebound effect of traditional diets is? avoid it
At first, this could seem very gratifying, since obviously we see the possibility of obtaining a much more slender and attractive figure very quickly and this gives us an enormous sensation of pleasure, but… is it really the right thing to lose so much weight in such a short time? ? The answer is no and we are going to explain the real reason.
We have always been educated that to lose weight it is necessary to lose weight, and for this we use the scale. Although this is not entirely wrong, when we lose weight in an uncontrolled and very fast way, what happens to us is that a large part of the weight we have lost comes from muscle mass and not from fat mass and this is where it is. the error.
On the one hand we have to know that the space that fat occupies within our body is not the same as that which muscle mass can occupy, since fat is much more voluminous and therefore tends to occupy much more “space”. inside our body.
On the other hand, while 1 kg of muscle mass consumes 6 kcal/min, 1 kg of fat consumes only 2 kcal/min, therefore if we diet excessively strong and without any type of guideline or control, it can happen that we lose a more than significant amount of muscle that will cause our metabolic rate to be greatly reduced and therefore at the time we are at rest we spend much less energy than before, and this will be one of the main reasons that will tend to not produce the expected result.
So what can happen in this case?
As long as we are able to maintain a strict diet, there will be no problem, but the moment we “relax” in some way it will be much easier to gain weight and we will enter a vicious circle from which it will be very difficult for us to get out, producing the so-called “effect rebound”.
For this reason, above all, we would like to emphasize in the first place that miracle diets do not exist and that what we really have to do if we want to lose weight is to do it in a healthy way and always accompanied by physical activity, since restricting our food will do us no good. as the only strategy to lose weight.
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