Liquid Diets Are Not Good For Weight Loss

By Walter Marsaki

Many people wonder about liquid diets in order to lose weight. Want to know the truth about them?

It is not good to take liquid diets for many days. You may burn a little bit of fat, but you will also burn muscles of your body.

Your body will not get sufficient amount of energy to carry on all its operations. Do you know what will happen in such cases?

At first, the body will try to get energy by burning fat then later on will burn muscles to gain more energy. So you will lose muscles with continued use of liquid diets.

When you start eating solid food again, your body is likely to gain back the weight again which it lost. However, the muscles are not so easy to gain back.

In order to gain back the lost muscles, you have to do regular exercises. When you lose muscles, your body becomes weak.

As muscle loss equals weakness, so you are causing a lot of harm to your body by using liquid diets.

Most people are not accustomed to low calorie intake that you get from liquid diets. Most liquid diets will consist of calories in the range of 400-800 per day.

Drastically reducing the calorie intake might cause unwanted side effects. A better approach is to go slowly and steadily. Wanting to lose weight overnight, can cause you serious health problems.

Lets recap the major problems with liquid diets - muscle loss, sudden reduction in calories, weakness of body and problem in keeping the weight off.

You might lose weight initially, but may struggle to keep it off after some time. You cannot remain on liquid diets forever. You have to come back to solid foods.

Sometimes, you might gain back more weight than when you started out. At other times, you might gain back atleast some of the weight you lost during dieting.

Such rapid weight loss tactics will cause more of muscle loss than real fat loss. They might also cause reduction in metabolic rate.

Beware of continuing liquid diets for a long time. They might cause serious health problems.

Prolonged use of such diets can cause kidney as well as lung problems. Your immune system may also suffer. Kidneys and lungs are very important organs of your body and deserve utmost care.

It is unwise to cause damage to your body organs just because you want to lose weight in a few days. It is better to show patience and lose weight in a healthy manner.

Remember - liquid dieting is not at all effective when it comes to permanent weight loss. So it is not at all recommended as a means of fast weight loss. - 30414

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