In this post which I called it diet to get six pack i want to focus on only one thing which is the calorie intake, i will not discuss the type of food you should eat now but i promise to discuss it on another post.
Most people think that the best way to get a six pack is to restrict your calorie too much , cut the carbohydrates and all type of fats or restrict it too much! but what they dont know is that by doing that they trigger their body defense mechanism to act against them and they will never loose fat neither be able to build the abs or muscles in general.
But most people are so much brain wasched by the six pack fast type of sdvertising as I always mentioned.
So lets dive in to the details, why you should avoid very law caloie diet??
1- very low calorie diet will slow down your metabolism!
That s right, the first thing that occurs during a sever calorie shortage is a decrease in your metabolic rate, the lower your calories the slower your metabolism becomes.Simply put, when you eat less your body burns less ,when you eat more your body burns more.
when calories are restricted the metabolism decreases by 20-30% , this why after prolong calorie dieting you can eat very little food and still not lose weight, this also explain why most peole stuck in the middle of burning their extra fat and their weight will never go down, and if it does they will lose water and muscles mainly, not fat.
2- low calorie diet will make you loose muscles.
f you are after six pack muscle you should never lower your calori intake too much.
Once the starvation alarm is triggered with in your body it will begin to look for way to conserve energy, muscle is ametabollicaly active tissue and the body will burn it to get the energy in aprocess called glconeogensis, whichwill convert muscles in to glucose.
Very low calorie diet without excerise will lead to 40-50% of weight loss to come from the lean tissue , and yes you have to exercise to get a six pack but that’s not our main topic here.
3- low calorie diets increase activity of fat storing enzymes which called lipo protein lipase and and decreases the production of fat burning enzymes.
4- It decreases the out put of thyroid hormones.
Thyroid gland is the gland that is responsible for regulation of your basal metabolic rate ,the more your diet is restricted in calorie the less T3 hormones produced , your metabolic rate will decrease as a consequence and few calories will be burned.
5- Rebound weight gain, very resticted calorie as I explained above will lead to a slow metabolism and when that happen you will hit aplatueau and will never Lose more weight , that when people get frustrated and quit that restricted diet, most of them will start to eat too much and they will gain the weight they loss very fast , in addition to that the lost weight was mostly water and muscles any way wich will rebound and come back quickly.
All that will lead to what icall the yo – yo diet.
6- Increases appetite to craving , a study done on a group of people who were going through a very restricted diet , and it reveals that most of them almost all the time were thinking about only one thing, guess what was it ?? Right! Food, and because of that they will start to crave for sweety food and food in general and stiking to that diet will be almost immposible.
7- decreases your energy and work capacity , which you don’t want ,you will need to do your six pack exersices , and be energized .
Diet for a six pack should never be aboult calori restriction , the next time you hear some one in Tv talks about going through restricted diet to burn your extra fat and build your muscles or write about it you know what to tell your self , bullshit!!!
