A little something about weight loss

Before starting some weight loss crusade you've got to familiarize yourself with how your body works. Your body uses calories for energy, we get these calories from the things we eat and drink. Pretty simple so far. But here's where it becomes even simpler. Yeah, I said it, simpler.

Think of your body as a bank and calories as money. This is a bit of an oversimplification, of course, but I'm using the comparison to make a point.

Muscle mass, even at rest, burns calories. When someone drastically reduces their caloric intake, their body sees this as a run on the bank (old depression term but I think you get it). When the bank isn't seeing the same income as it once did what is it going to hold on to? If you said its reserves or cash that's exactly right, just like your body will hold on to its reserve of calories (i.e. body fat). So, at this point, your body is holding on to its reserves to weather the storm, what do you think it will get rid of? A bank may let some employees go if it's income is drastically reduced, and employees cost money don't they? Yeah, they do the work, but without money coming in they become expendable.

Your body will do the exact same thing. Calorie burning muscle tissue becomes expendable and building up your body fat reserves becomes crucial. The heartbreaker in all this is while you may weigh less from just dieting, your BMI index or body fat percentage may actually increase thus making you weigh less but actually become fatter.