Starvation Diet

Starvation Diet

Starvation Diets are based on the principle of burning far more calories than you consume. This kind of diets generally aim to lose 1000 to 1500 calories in quick time. Although, you may achieve weight loss initially with such diets, you generally are always hungry.

When your body senses (or believes) it's getting less food than it usually does, it's "self-preservation" switch is triggered. Because your body believes it's about to starve, the first thing it does is shut down its fat-burners to preserve fuel (fat). That's why your body burns so few calories slowly on starvation type diets. If a starvation diet is followed for an extended period of time other bodily processes may shut down. Death is even possible if taken to extremes.

Moreover, it is possible that in spite of burning a high number of calories by starving yourself, you may still end up gaining weight. On the contrary, there are other diets that actually profess consuming 3000 to 4000 calories and still yield very positive results.

We strongly suggest that you consider a healthy diet and exercise program as a means to lose weight. This method will help to build your body and muscles instead of weakening it with malnutrition. Starvation diets are short sighted and could to a myriad of health problems.

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