Although we may get attracted and fascinated towards the rapid weight loss. But experts recommend a slow weight loss which is 500 gm to 1 kg maximum per week. Losing weight quickly through starvation techniques may result in harmful effects. Perhaps most noticeably people who lose quickly will not be able to sustain successfully.
Few side effects which result after following fad diets for faster weight loss are lack of nutrition from your body if you completely skip few food groups from your diet like milk and milk products. If you won’t substitute it with other calcium sources.
Your metabolism will get slower. Rapid weight loss usually occurs from extreme calorie deprivation, for example, people who go from eating 3,000 to 1,200 calories a day, says Gans. Trouble is, our body recognizes this as a sign of limited food supply and goes into starvation mode.
Calories restricted diet may result in decreased muscle mass rather then decreased fat loss. Your body starts eating your muscles first rather fat to maintain the energy supply.Muscle is more metabolically active than fat. That means one pound of muscle burns more calories a day than one pound of fat. So, a loss of muscle means you’ll burn less calories a day and decreased weight loss.
Also cutting too much carbohydrates may result in dehydration and that leads to dry skin dullness and low.
So “success is a fruit of slow growth”
DR NAMITA NADAR
DIETITIAN AND NUTRITIONIST
PHD FOOD AND NUTRITION
HOD CLINICAL NUTRITION