The author Marian Keyes lost 33lbs
Fair play to her
She did it by only consuming 600 calories a day of liquids for 12 weeks
Not so fair play
She described the diet it as being
‘disgusting’ and ‘repulsive’
She developed mouth-ulcers, hangnails, cold sores and experienced low energy
Would you follow something for 12 weeks that made you feel like that?
My main gripe with diets like these is they don’t teach what happens after
Granted Marian has kept the weight off and I really hope she keeps it off
She talks about having depression and having numerous addictions
I just doubt she will keep it off
This is based purely on science
By eating only 600 calories a day and then trying to maintainÂ
She’s basically taught her body to live on 600 cals a day
And as the body is extremely intelligent
It will simply match the 600 in with 600 out
And that means if you wanted some chocolate say 200 cals worth
That’s 1/3rd of your entire day gone
What happens when Marian eats 1200 cals in one day? which is very easy to do
She’ll store the excess as fat, doesn’t matter if it’s from cake or steak
What happens if she falls off the wagon for a week and consumes 1200 every day and more?
She’ll start seeing the scales climb
This is my worry
Because this is exactly what happens when you go on a very low cal diet (most diets fall into this)
You may be one of the strong ones who can stick with it for a while
But either way as soon as you start eating ‘normally’ again you’ll start storing fat
And that’s why, for any weight/fat loss to be sustainable
Your ‘normal’ must change.
And the absolute best way to do thatÂ
Is to increase the amount of calories you burn by getting stronger and fitter
And to feed and fuel your body to achieve that
Not by starving or depriving yourself
John ‘mmm cake’ O’C
P.S. Â Speaking of cake
There’ll be loads at this on Sat…