Rapid Weight Loss How Safe Is It?

If you are loosing more than one to two pounds a week then you are losing weight too rapidly. Rapid weight loss is really a matter of losing mostly water not fat. This can cause you to become dehydrated which can lead to other problems like constipation.

If you are loosing weight rapidly because of water loss then you will most likely regain the weight quickly. This kind of diet becomes one of those yo-yo pattern diets. Another danger of rapid weight loss is the loss of muscle tissue. If you are dieting by eating too few calories then your body will start to lose muscle. Losing muscle will not help you lose weight because the more muscle you have the more your metabolism works will you are at rest, which means you will lose more weight while you are resting.  To prevent muscle loss then you must eat at least 1200 calories a day.

Also if you eat too few calories then your body will go into a famine mode where your metabolism will slow down as to avoid expending more energy than is needed. At this point your body will be saving calories which means you will not be losing fat.

Another danger of rapid weight loss diets is that many of them consist of shakes and drinks that do not offer your body the sufficient nutrition and calories that it needs. You need a diet that is well balanced along with an exercise program to have effective more permanent weight loss. Please go to our review page to see our recommend weight lose programs.