The word ‘metabolism’ gets thrown around fitness and diet media all the time, but it’s used as an excuse for people who sell pills telling us that we need them because our metabolism can be magically slowed down by eating low calories. This of course isn’t true considering your metabolism has nothing to do with how much food you eat or how much time you spend exercising; this scary idea was created purely out of greed!
“Metabolism’ is just the sum of the chemical processes of your body on a cellular/systemic level. The food we eat, converting them into substances needed for growth, reproduction, muscle repair etc, thus producing energy from these reactions.
And there is virtually nothing you can do to change this.
Yet the media continues to peddle a lie that eating at or below your actual BMR isn’t going to be enough for weight loss and claims even more outlandish: That undereating could lead someone to “metabolic damage!” these lies are made up so we’ll buy their products and marketing gimmicks like diet pills which have been proven time and again not to work as promised.
Here are some facts about dieting that are often wrong and can lead to a lot of misconceptions.
Eating too few calories can actually effect your metabolism and ‘slow’ it down.
That your metabolism speed can be changed.
You need a fast metabolism to stay thin, and a slow metabolism results in being overweight.
You may have even heard eating frequent meals can speed up your metabolism too.
Be highly sceptical if you see any of the above claims with the word “metabolism” in it.
To lose weight you need to be eating less calories than you are now, the lower in calories you eat the faster you will weight loss. The end.
