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Liquid Diets Are Not Good For Weight Loss

Posted by Walter Marsaki in Weight loss on 11 8th, 2009 | no responses

Liquid diets are popular among people who want rapid weight loss. But are they really good?

Taking liquid diets for many days continuously is not a good practice. You might lose a few pounds this way, but more importantly you will lose 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.

When you lose muscles, you will become weaker. You have to do regular exercises in order to gain back the muscles.

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

Most liquid diets consist of low calories in the range of 400-800 calories per day. Many overweight people will not be accustomed to such low calorie intake.

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.

The major problems associated with liquid diets are muscle loss, sudden and drastic reduction in calorie intake, weakness and keeping the weight off.

Liquid dieting is a short term solution. You will struggle to keep the weight off after you start eating solid foods. And you cannot remain on liquid diets forever.

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.

These temporary solutions will cause muscle loss more than real fat loss. They can also cause metabolic rate to drop.

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.

I am sure, no one will like to cause permanent damage to these organs. Hence it is better to try to lose weight through healthy methods.

Final verdict is that liquid dieting is not a good option for long term weight loss. It is best not to try it out as a means of rapid weight loss.

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