Restriction always fails. While restricting calories (calories in vs. calories out) or carbohydrates will initially cause weight loss, both methods will unfortunately lead to an immovable and impenetrable plateau once your body reaches its set point (the weight your body wants to weigh and where it gets stuck).
Even worse, calorie or carbohydrate restriction causes low blood sugar, leading to low energy levels, cravings, and, most importantly, a loss of lean muscle mass. Because fat is primarily burned within muscle, and muscle increases the rate at which your body burns calories, losing muscle slows your metabolism.
Inevitably, once you re-introduce the calories and carbohydrates you restricted (you can’t starve forever!), you regain the weight plus extra body fat due to the loss of lean muscle mass and a slower metabolism. This makes it even more challenging to lose weight the next time around and leads to the yo-yo syndrome (weight loss followed by weight gain). Creating a calorie or carbohydrate deficit trains your metabolism to slow down, not speed up!
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