Avoid Liquid Diets for Rapid Weight Loss

By Walter Marsaki

Liquid diets are popular means of losing weight fast and easy. Do you know the truth about them?

It is not good to take liquid diets for many days. You may burn a little bit of fat, but you will also burn 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?

The body will initially burn fat in order to get the energy, then later on will burn muscles to get more energy. The end result - loss of muscles.

Once you start eating solid food, the weight that you lost might come back again. But the muscles are unlikely to be back so easily.

You will have to exercise regularly in order to gain back the muscles you lost. When you lose muscles, your body becomes weaker than before.

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

You will get very low amount of calories from liquid diets - in the range of 400 to 800 calories per day. Most people are not accustomed to such low calorie intake.

You may get other side effects by suddenly reducing calories so much. It is far better to take a slow and steady approach instead of attempting to lose weight overnight.

Lets recap the major problems with liquid diets - muscle loss, sudden reduction in calories, weakness of body and problem in 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.

Once you call off the diet, you have high chances of gaining back atleast some of the weight you lost. However, sometimes you might gain back more weight than your original one.

Liquid dieting as such can cause muscle loss and only very little fat loss. Your metabolism rate may also drop as a result of it.

One thing you have to be careful about is that you should not continue liquid diets for may days. Otherwise you may face serious health problems.

For example, prolonged use of liquid diets can cause kidney and lung problems, and may weaken your immune system. Lungs and kidneys are 2 major and very important organs of your body.

It is unwise to cause damage to your body organs just because you want to lose weight in a few days. It is better to show patience and lose weight in a healthy manner.

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. - 30241

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