Overweight From which speed losing weight is very unhealthy

Overweight: Losing weight fast could be dangerous
Some people who want to reduce their weight, try this with some extreme methods. However, if you reduce your daily intake of calories too much, it can be harmful to your health. In addition, this increases the risk of the so-called yo-yo effect.

Daily calorie intake
Some want to do something for their figure, others are more health reasons in the foreground: Diets are in vogue. Whether you succeed with it depends not only on the method - for example, Low Carb or Low Fat - but also on how fast the weight should be reduced. If the amount of calories consumed per day is too small, the possible short-term customer succession can disappear quickly. It can also affect your health.

If you want to lose weight and restrict your daily calorie intake too much, you risk having a yo-yo effect afterwards. Sometimes health can suffer as well. (Image: bravissimos / fotolia.com)

Change diet over the long term
Since diets often only increase obesity due to the yo-yo effect, experts often warn against losing weight. In order to lose weight without a yo-yo effect, the diet must be consistently changed in the long term - and one should not expect too fast successes.

Prof. Dr. med. Helmut Gohlke from the board of the German Heart Foundation, explains in a cardiac consultation, that people who want to lose weight, should make sure by simple values ​​that the daily calorie amount was not too low. Otherwise, according to the expert, significant problems may occur.

1.5 kilograms less per month
The Emeritus Chief Physician of the Department of Clinical Cardiology II in the Heart Center Bad Krozingen refers to recommendations of the German Obesity Society: "To reduce the body weight, a daily energy deficit of about 500 kcal / day, in some cases even higher to be sought. "

For example, with a normal body weight of 80 kg and medium activity, the calorie requirement is in the range of 2,400 kcal / day. For weight loss, therefore, a calorie amount of 1,900 kcal / day would be useful.

With such a calorie reduction, a weight loss of about 1.5 kg per month could be achieved, which would correspond to 4.5 kg weight reduction in a quarter of a year with consistent implementation.

There is a threat of a yo-yo effect
As it is called on the website of the German Heart Foundation, the calculation of the daily energy requirement based on the rule of thumb normal body weight (kg) x 30 kcal, which offers a moderate and moderate in practice, in many cases, completely adequate assessment possibility at moderate physical activity.

Stronger diets with more reduced caloric intake may risk the body to over-conserve, lose muscle, and then have a yo-yo effect when the original diet is reestablished.

Basically, one should not eat after losing weight in a way that has led to obesity, but rather maintain a kind of permanent diet with fewer calories.

Varied diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables
In addition, Prof. Gohlke explains during the consultation that there is no need to worry about a possible deficiency in vitamins and minerals if, as recommended, the calorie reduction is around 500 kcal / day, and at the same time on a varied diet Vegetables and fruits including nuts, dairy and whole grains are respected. Only with a stronger calorie reduction could a danger exist.

Anyone who nevertheless strives for a diet with an energy deficit of more than 500 kcal / day should only do so under medical advice. In such cases, various points would have to be clarified, for example, how muscle reduction can be counteracted with targeted exercise programs. (Ad)