Woman's Side-By-Side Photo Proves Cutting Calories Doesn't Make You Fitter
Most people think that the best way to get skinny is by going on the age-old starvation diet for a week or two.
In fact, for most of my life, Ive been a firm believer in the The Devil Wears Prada diet, whereyou basically dont eat anything and when you feel like youre about to swoon, you feed a cube of cheese.
If youre someone who turns to crash diets every time you to start tip the scale, it turns out that cutting extreme quantities of calories might not be the most effective way to get the beach bod of your dreams.
Fitness blogger Madalin Frodsham recently set out to debunk the calorie restriction debacle by posting a side-by-side comparison photo on Instagram.
The photoshows her body on an 800 -calorie diet versus a 1,800 -calorie diet.
The discrepancies between the two photos is pretty incredible.
Its not hard to see that Frodsham appears much more fit and muscular in the photo that showcases her body on the 1,800 -caloriediet.
Frodsham wrote on Instagram,
800 calories seems absurdly low as now I need minimum 1500 calories to be full, but at the time 800 calories was maintaining me full because thats what my body have allowed us to. After a while though, salad simply wasnt cutting it, and for all the restrictions I was placing on my diet, I simply wasnt insuring research results I had anticipated.
The fitness blogger eventually sought the help of a personal trainer and nutritional coach.
She was then advised her to increase her daily calorie allowance and get at least half of her calories from healthy carbohydrates in order to increase her energy.
According to Frodsham,
If youre under feeding yourself in an effort to lose weight, dont do what I did for so long Dont waste your time eating salad when you could be feeing sweet potatoes and banana flapjacks. Eat more and get fit. It actually works.
Apparently, the reason over-restricting calories doesnt work is that once you dip below a certain calorie threshold, your body goes into a starvation mode and tries to conserve as much energy as possible.
So, if youre trying to get a banging bod, you should aim to fuel yourself with the proper amount of nutrients rather than go on an extreme diet where your body is simply operating on fumes.
Woman's Side-By-Side Photo Proves Cutting Calories Doesn't Make You Fitter
Woman's Side-By-Side Photo Proves Cutting Calories Doesn't Make You Fitter
Woman's Side-By-Side Photo Proves Cutting Calories Doesn't Make You Fitter
Woman's Side-By-Side Photo Proves Cutting Calories Doesn't Make You Fitter
Woman's Side-By-Side Photo Proves Cutting Calories Doesn't Make You Fitter