Why? Because it is simple.
You may have heard that some people have lost 5 Jin and some people have lost 10 Jin, but have you heard that some people have lost 40 Jin?
This basically impossible thing in modern society happened in Minnesota, USA 75 years ago.
We call it the Minnesota Hunger Experiment.
The experiment was divided into three stages: three-month control period, six-and-a-half-month starvation period and three-month recovery period.
During the control period of the first three months, volunteers consumed 3200 calories a day.
This calorie intake belongs to the normal category. In addition to studying and working every day, all experimenters have to run 35 kilometers a week, which is equivalent to running 5 kilometers of middle and long distance running every day.
This doesn't seem very difficult, because the control period is mainly to let the experimenter have an adaptive process to detect and record various physical data of the experimenter.
But soon, they entered a six-month semi-starvation period.
After a 3-month control period, all the experimenters went into a 6-month starvation period, and their calories were all halved, and each person could only consume 1.570 calories per day.
A 60kg normal adult male does nothing, and the calories consumed in one day's sleep are 1200~ 1500. It is very easy to consume 2000 calories a day if there is a certain degree of activity, such as going up and down the stairs to get the courier.
Not to mention the average weight of the experimenter is 75 kilograms, and all the original activities are maintained.
Eating only 1570 calories a day is equivalent to eating only 300g white rice, two poached eggs and 100g cooked meat a day.
Of course, this is only the author's transformation. Their food is mainly potatoes, cabbage, macaroni and whole wheat bread, and they seldom eat meat.
At the beginning of the hunger period, everyone can maintain a good mental state and have a normal social life, but in the middle period, volunteers begin to have a series of physical changes, such as gastrointestinal discomfort, dizziness, headache, edema, hair loss, fear of cold, blurred vision, persistent tinnitus, numbness of hands and feet and so on.
Everyone's eyes turn white and look like skeleton people at night.
In the later period, many experimenters developed mental illness, similar to bipolar disorder.
People become reluctant to associate with others, their sense of humor generally disappears and they lose interest in sex. The frequency of masturbation, sexual fantasy and sexual impulse decreased.
Some people even have the idea of killing people.
By the end of the experiment, most of the experimenters had achieved the goal of the experiment and lost at least 25% of their own weight. For the original 150 kg boys, almost everyone lost 40 kg of meat.
During the three-month recovery period, all the experimenters said that although they ate a lot of food every day, they still felt hungry. They eat 6000 calories a day, but they have to add meals every day.
Blindly dieting will reduce your body's metabolic rate, and it is easy to encounter bottleneck period, irritable and depressed, and it is easy to rebound later.
I have a friend with me. She began to lose weight in her sophomore year, and went on a diet in February, from 190 kg to 160 kg. However, she is listless every day and insists on drinking tea and coffee every day. What's more, she has lost weight and is not good-looking. The bones in her chest are obvious, but there is a lot of fat in her waist and abdomen.
After losing weight, he temporarily let go of his diet and immediately broke through the door of 200 pounds.
The best way to lose weight is that diet and exercise complement each other, not just aerobic exercise. Strength training is extremely important.
Keeping your mouth shut and your legs open is always the best way to lose weight.