If you want to lose 10 pounds quick, don’t starve yourself. Starvation diets may help you lose 10 pounds or even more in a relatively short time, but in the long run they won’t work and may even cause you to gain more weight than you had prior to the diet. That’s right, starving yourself can cause you to gain weight.

Think about it - when you starve yourself you slow your bodies metabolism down. It makes perfect sense; there is no food coming in, and so your body needs to conserve energy to maximize the amount of time it can sustain itself before new sustenance arrives. It’s an natural reaction to lack of food, and while it may have helped us to survive as a species for millions of years, it now makes dieting a pain in the arse.

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