Eating 1,000 Calories or Less Can Make You Gain Weight!

Did you know that limiting your calories severely, such as 1,000 calories a day or less, can actually make your body put weight on?  It’s true! Although, there are of course cases where people do drop significant weight doing this, but in the short term, cutting your calories that significantly actually backfires on you if your goal is to lose body weight by doing it.  How could the be, I mean 1,000 calories a day is basically like eating for a bird, right!

Well, as you may or may not be aware, your body has many survival mechanisms against starvation, and when you suddenly limit your caloric intake that severely, your body reacts by trying to hang on to and store those calories and fat stores that you already have, all that much more voraciously.  This is because this is your body’s instinctual self preservation mode that kicks in and helps your body to maintain what it already has so that it can continue to live off of the same body fat for a longer period of time.

The body really is truly an amazing survival mechanism if you think about it!  We all know that 1,000 calories a day is extremely hard to maintain, and you cannot function on this little bit of calories, neither mentally or physically, without suffering consequences. This is why people who have severe eating disorders have a hard time concentrating and focusing, and often times have damaged organs – especially the heart. Your body was meant to have enough nourishment, or fuel, in the form of food and liquids, to sustain it to do all of the functions that it needs to in one day.

When you think of all the functions your body performs in just one day, it’s positively mind boggling at what a perfect machine it is, and it becomes more clear that we really must put the right kinds of “fuel” into our bodies if we are to have any hope of them running smoothly up until we end up exiting this world.  Kinda sounds like a car, eh?  It’s true though. If you want your body to run right, you really have to be willing to put the many times more expensive “high octane” stuff in that gives your body the extra kick that it needs to get you through the day, and to do it the right way.