Food

As diets go people think eating 1500 calories or less is the way to go and will help with weightloss. Wrong, you are putting your body into starvation mode which means if you do lose weight, you will actually gain more when you put it back on, your making your body burn muscle and getting your body to fling on to the fat.

People who are serious about exercise, especially weight lifting are eating 2000+ calories a day, and normally have to keep upping the calories the more muscle they have built.

That seems a scary amount to some people and they think oh my I will get fat. Wrong, you need to fuel your body, you cannot build muscle on nothing, you need to gain weight to help build the muscle.

I am not tellin you to go eat 2000 calories and as long as your doing exercise you will loose weight, or gain mass amount of muscle. You need to take it slow, so if your on 1200 calories you will need to build up slowly, so increase your calories slowly and up your carbs slowly, that way you can monitor your weight and if it stalls or you gain then to lower the calories a little bit till you start loosing weight again.

If you follow iifym than this is known as reverse dieting,basically in lamen terms you are re training your metabolism and speeding it back up, or re tuning your body.

Remember fuel your body, like a car with no petrol it will not go any were, your body is exactly the same thing.