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If you are considering using one of the many low calorie diets out there to lose weight, then you should think again.

On the face of it a low calorie diet seems to make sense. Excessive calories that have been stored as fat, is the reason for you being overweight. It seem logical that a decrease in calories will result in weight loss.

The problem here is that your body is basically a survival organism. Everything that your body does is aimed at keeping you moving and keeping you alive. If yu ae used to consuming a particular number of calories, and all of a sudden this number drops by a large amount, your body will respond by burning calories at a slower rate to compensate. It will do this because the message it is recieving, is not that you are trying to lose weight, but that you are in the process of starving, and your body will react by hanging on to calories, it won't care that you are trying to lose them.

This is why so many people who go on low calorie diets, find that they lose some weight at the start, and then the weight loss stops after a few weeks. They then think that the diet is no good, and give up using it. The assumption that the diet is not working is the right assumption, but not for the reasons that people think. A low calorie diet is a temporary method, and you can guarantee that any lost weight will return.

This method is not only a waste of time and effort, but it gives you a negative mindset about losing weight. Each attempt at weight loss will be approached in a deep seated belief that you will fail, because that is what you have always done.

If your aim is to lose weight for the long term then low calorie diets are something that you need to keep away from. If you have been successful with these kind of diets, you wouldn't be looking for information here. Weight loss can by successfully achieved with tried and tested techniques. It is a case of having a good diet and exercise plan in place. Not rushing yourself is the real secret. Simply put, using sensible methods and sensible time frames will allow you not to only succeed in losing weight, but it will it will allow you to keep the weight off for good.

To put it bluntly, the choice is yours. You can keep doing the same things and continue getting the same results. If you want to get different results, then it makes sense to say that you will have to do something different. The use of low calorie diets are actully preventing you from losing weight in the long term.