Dieting is usually effective in the first few days, not only losing weight quickly, but also reducing waist circumference. However, the good times did not last long. Dieters often encounter bottlenecks immediately after dieting for 7 to 10 days. During this period, no matter how much you eat, your weight still stays at the original point and you can't continue to decline.

Why the initial effect of dieting is good may be because you lose water instead of fat!

Water loss, a few days before starting a diet, in order to cope with the lack of calories, the human body will burn the liver sugar stored in the body as an energy source, and liver sugar has a wonderful feature that it will take away a lot of water. One gram of liver sugar can catch four grams of water, so when the stock of liver sugar in the body decreases, the water will be lost in large quantities, which will lead to weight loss.

In addition, dieting will inevitably reduce the intake of salt and electrolyte, and make the kidneys excrete more water. Clinicians often tell patients with severe edema to limit salt intake to help eliminate water in the body, which is also the reason. In other words, some weight loss in the early stage of dieting is mostly the result of water loss, not fat consumption.

Dieting will make the body lose water, decrease basal metabolic rate and reduce muscle tissue, which will make the human body in a state of high energy saving. After returning to a normal calorie diet, the human body is like a shriveled sponge, quickly absorbing all the calories and repairing the lost fat and muscles. The weight naturally returned to the standard before dieting.

In addition, the normal calorie diet supplements the liver sugar exhausted in the body, allowing the originally lost water to re-enter the body. This phenomenon can explain why the weight soared like a rocket in the first three days after stopping dieting.