Can I lose weight faster by consuming fewer calories?
Sounds like good math, but your body doesn’t work like that. If you make a habit of consuming fewer calories than your body requires, your body will automatically go into “starvation mode.” In effect, your body says, “If (s)he ain’t gonna feed me, then I’d better slow things down until (s)he decides to eat again.” There are some awfully compelling reasons to lose weight slowly. If you lose more than a pound or two per week, you’re almost certainly losing muscle, not just fat tissue, and that’s exactly what you don’t want to do. (It’s your muscles, after all, that work to burn off the calories you take in!) Also, weight lost quickly is far more likely to be regained than weight lost very gradually.
