Starvation Diet - Not the Answer and Why

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The idea of the Cool-Down Phase is to slowly regulate your diet back to normal so that you can maintain the weight that you are currently happy with and you don’t put on any extra unwanted pounds in the future. The first step is to move your diet back to the same calorie levels as you had in the induction phase. Although some would argue that a introduction of a mere 20% - 40% or your previous caloric consumption is a bit small and is not a very good way to celebrate your weight loss, it is an essential step to take so that you don’t overeat and put back the pounds that you have lost and ultimately failing with this slimming diet.

Most of the time when people restore their diet to a caloric intake similar to the one in their Induction Phase they will generally settle at that stage and keep at it. This is because in the Dieting Phase a few important things have happened. The first and most important is that you have lost weight and now your body doesn’t need as much nutrients to survive. Your stomach would also have lost a considerable volume and thus even with the reduced food intake you will still feel full from the “stretch” you stomach will experience with the extra food taken in. Through the dieting phase you would know what food stuffs you need to keep away hunger pangs and you will also know what is needed to make your own body lose weight. Each person’s body is different and thus all these have to be learned by yourself. You should already have the knowledge of what foods keep you full longer and also which foods you are particularly sensitive too which can hinder your weight loss efforts.

An important step in the Cool-Down Phase is to remember your past dieting and obtain as much information you can from it. At no time should you ever revert back to the same level of calories that you had before the diet started. That would simply reverse all the hard work that you have done. The whole idea is that now you will feel happy and satisfied with the reduced consumption of food.

Discussions about the Starvation Diet
Although most dietitians will tell that that the starvation diet isn’t good and should not be followed the facts cannot be denied. For those who have managed to lose weight using this diet, they will swear on the long term effectiveness and how they have actually learned to control the body’s cravings etc from simply learning about the many different feelings both physiological and psychological that this diet has showed.

There are two schools of though about the diet and very few people who lie in between. Some have very negative thing to say about the diet while some say that it is perfectly healthy and should be used if a person is overweight and needs to lose weight. We will discuss both schools of though below:

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