How to lose weight the wrong way?

Let’s assume that you study at miranda house and weigh 80 kilograms. Now, there’s your sister’s wedding in 2 months, and you managed to lose 10 kilograms by only consuming cumin water, fruit, vegetable salads and a single chapati daily. During this time, neither did you workout nor paid any attention to protein intake.

So, what do you think, you lost all that weight from fat? Well, no and it’s not just fat that you lost; you also lost water and significant amount of muscle. Because in the absence of strength/resistance training and optimal protein it’s really difficult to preserve muscle. But the happiness of losing 10 kilograms was way more important than losing muscle.

Nonetheless, after a few months of your sister’s wedding, you return to your old lifestyle that got you to 80 kilos in the first place, so obviously, you end up back at the same 80 kg mark within the next 3-4 months. 

So, what did you gain this time? Mostly fat and some water because without proper workouts and sufficient protein intake, it’s challenging for your muscles to recover quickly.

So you got back to the same weight within a few months, but this time with more fat, since you lost significant muscle during previous weight loss, resulting in decreased metabolism. 

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This, my friends, is the yo-yo dieting effect, where losing muscle loss gradually reduces your metabolism. To put this more simply, you lose fat & muscle, you gain mostly fat, again you lose fat & muscle, you again gain mostly fat, and this cycle keeps going on and on, until you decide to make changes to your lifestyle.

So the bottomline is, without strength training, increased activity level and adequate protein intake, long-term fat loss will be difficult to achieve.