What’s so unhealthy about just limiting my calories in order to lose weight?
Limiting your caloric intake severely is dangerous and I would never recommend to anyone that they should go under 1500. Basically in a nutshell, if you don’t eat enough calories during the day your body goes into “fast” mode, or starvation mode as its most commonly referred to. When this happens, the body turns to its own muscles to provide the necessary source of glucose that is must have (fuel) to keep on running. The reason people lose a ton of weight quickly on these diets is because within the first couple days of putting your body through this “fasting” mode, their body is devouring its own protein tissues as fuel. Basically, they are losing their muscle and thus losing weight (as muscle weighs more than fat). If you keep on depleting calories your body starts turning to fat…it converts your fat cells to a usable form to feed the brain….this is known as ketosis, you might have heard of it before. Your body’s lean tissues are now wasting away at a fast rate and your body slows do
