Why 98% of Fat Loss Diet Plans Fail

There are 3 primary reasons why 98% of fat loss diet plans fail. Let’s find out what they are and take a closer look at each of these reasons.

1) 98% of fat loss diet plans fail because they don’t take into account that although times may have changed, our bodies haven’t.

Early humans were hunters and gatherers, and our bodies still function in that way. These were times when there were no food-filled refrigerators 10 feet away, and fast food / drive thru didn’t exist. They would either actively find food (working very hard to do so) or they would eat nothing at all. Sometimes, they would starve for a substantial period of time.

Since they were forced to survive without food on many occasions, their bodies had to adapt. To compensate, their metabolisms slowed down so that when food was available, it would be stored as fat, ensuring that there would be a back-up energy source for times when food was scarce. Sadly, although most of us living in the developed world no longer need this survival mechanism, it still exists.

If you attempt to lose weight with a diet plan that substantially reduces your caloric intake, your survival mechanism will kick in and work against you. In the process, you end up burning less fat and storing more of it, because your metabolism naturally slows down. Even worse, you waste away much of your lean muscle tissue.

2) 98% of fat loss diet plans fail, because they make us feel hungrier.

When you’re following fat loss diet plans that restrict calories, you will be constantly hungry & uncomfortable. (Also, you’ll be constantly thinking about food).

Is it possible to go on in that state for an extended period of time?

Of course not.Until you start eating regularly, the hunger pains from these fat loss diet plans will be continue. It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to live in a constant state of hunger permanently; at least, I don’t know anyone who can live in such a state.

Is it possible to lose weight and keep it off while following fat loss diet plans that are difficult to maintain and designed to fail?

It’s highly unlikely!

3) 98% of fat loss diet plans fail because reasons 1 and 2 set you up for disaster.

Once you stop following these low-calorie fat loss diet plans, you will be in for a rather unpleasant surprise.

The time spent on the fat loss diet has primed your body to store more fat and burn less of it. Eventually, when you resume your normal diet, you will end up piling on more pounds than before. (I’m sure you’ve heard of “yo-yo dieting”!). “)

To make things worse, it’s most likely that any weight that you might have lost from one of these fat loss diet plans was lean muscle mass and retained water. You might have reduced the number on the scale, but you didn’t actually lose any body fat.