Eating too little backfires: your body burns muscle instead of fat, slowing your metabolism. You end up with less energy to move and your body holds onto fat, making weight loss harder.
eating less can actually make you fatter even if you're losing weight. Yes, you actually did hear that right. What happens is when you take away calories thinking you're doing yourself a favor, your body will hit the panic button and then things get really, really weird. So here's what happened. You cut the calories and then your body will start to burn muscle instead of fat. Muscle is like your calorie burning engine and losing it means that your metabolism hits the brakes, and then suddenly you're burning fewer calories doing just nothing. And in a world where tasty food is around every corner, a slow metabolism is not going to be your friend. But it gets even worse. You think that eating less and moving more would be the golden rule, but it's not that black and white. Starve yourself on calories and your body doesn't just become a pro at holding on to fat, it takes away your energy, making you wanna move less and not more. So here's where the couch potato mode comes from with that
