One thing that you should understand before trying to lose weight is that losing weight and losing fat is not the same. You losing weight do not actually mean that you lose fat. Here is something to help you explain the phenomenon of weight loss vs fat loss.

The food you eat has calories most of which are used by the body to gain energy for work. When you intake more calories than what you actually need then they accumulate in your body as fat. However, not taking enough calories will result in losing energy along with the excessive weight.

People believe when the calories you intake are not enough the body starts to consume the stored fat to deal with the energy deficiency. Unfortunately, it is not true; the body actually uses the proteins and carbohydrates supplying the main energy.

The proteins and carbohydrates are taken from your muscle cells. The loss of carbohydrates and proteins result in the reduction of the muscle mass. This in turn will affect your metabolism and will lower it down. Due to this your body will need less energy to maintain its lower weight caused by the loss of muscles. Therefore the body saves the metabolism by slowing it down. This means that you will not lose any weight any further because the body would have adapted itself to its new body weight.

The weight that you will lose in the first placed is actually water weight. This you will gain back in the form of fat and not as muscles. You will have to rebuild you muscles if you want them back. If you are not ready to give enough energy to your, it will continue to feed on your muscles in a much quicker fashion.

So the right thing to do is to eat really healthy food. Remember when you do not eat enough calories you will end up losing muscles and will dehydrate yourself. Your fat will burn slowly and your body will end up adapting to a lower calorie intake.

When you will not be able to maintain the similar calorie intake for the rest of your life, the problem will start showing its ugly face. Slowly but surely you will end up gaining your weight back. So when you will stop starving you will again balloon up to your past size.