I tried the starvation diet to lose weight fast. In the end, I found myself in the hospital because of it. Let me tell you about this really bad way to lose weight, the starvation diet .
I went on this diet because I had tried a bunch of other ones that just didn't work for me. I tried Atkins, being a vegetarian, and Jenny Craig. Even when these systems worked, I eventually stopped doing them and quickly gained all of the weight back. By the time I went on my starvation diet I weighed in at 260 pounds, when my ideal weight was closer to 170 pounds. So I was easily 90 pounds overweight, desperate, and not very happy with myself.
I came up with my starvation diet because of something I had heard on the radio one morning. My favorite radio personalities were laughing at some heavy celebrity and advised her to just eat less and move around more. Well I took that to the extreme. Instead of eating my daily 5,000 plus calorie diet , I dropped down to eating no more than 300 calories a day. On top of this I began exercising regularly, as in all of the time. The 300 calories I did eat each day only came from very healthy food, primarily fruits and vegetables. For some reason I didn't use any vitamins.
My starvation dieting experiment worked really fast. In the first month I lost over 30 pounds. Of course it felt like a nightmare at first, as my body really wasn't getting enough calories to keep me going, but I guess that I survived it because my body was using the fat reserves for energy. The weight just kept falling off of me until I lost over 100 pounds within six months!
This seemed like a great idea at the time. I looked good, was skinny, and all of my family couldn't believe how I lost so much weight so fast. The problem was that this diet where I starved myself was doing some damage that I couldn't see. After about nine months I woke up with the most excruciating pain ever in my back! This was the kind of pain that makes you want to rip your face off! After a full day's worth of tests, I found out that I had gallstones due to the prolonged starvation. My gallbladder was removed through surgery, and I quickly changed my mind about the starvation diet .
In short, starving yourself by going on a very limited caloric diet will help you lose weight fast, but you will be doing damage to your body that just can't be seen at the time. Do yourself a favor and avoid this bad diet . I sure wish I would have.
