Why So Many Diets Do Not Work. | The Writers' Cafe

Why So Many Diets Do Not Work. The Writers' Cafe: "Why do so many diets fail?
Getting the human body to use fat as its fuel is apparently going against the general method for which the human body is designed, regarding using energy stored as fat.

The body must go into an emergency mode which is the mode it goes into during fasting, and later starvation. Yes the body can consume fat as its preferred source of energy, however the carbohydrate intake must be extremely restricted to very low levels. Also you can not go on a diet like this for a day, go off the next day and then go back on (and expect it to work) because the body first uses up the energy stored in the liver (as glycogen) and also to some extent and will actually break down muscle during its first 24 hours of extreme carbohydrate deprivation."