Are You Eating Enough?

I once thought, the less you ate the healthier you would be, but I was so wrong. You need a certain amount of fuel to meet your daily tasks. This amount depends on a majority of factors like height, weight, gender, and daily activity. 

People always say you need to burn more than you eat in order to lose weight, and it seems simple "eat less, burn more." It's not that simple because people tend to cut out things their body needs, like essential fats and nutrients to get a higher calorie deficit. And then on top of losing the fuel your body needs to complete daily tasks, you add more intense exercises to further deplete your body's leftover energy, if there is any energy left to deplete at all. 

This constant war of not eating enough can cause severe damage to the body, and if the torture isn't already enough on your physical and mental well-being, it sure will be when you notice the numbers on the scale don't even budge. So, now what? You start think maybe, I'm eating too much and not exercising enough, and continue to put your body through more torture just to not see any positive results. By this time, you should've realized cutting the calories isn't helping. You need to eat right, not less. If you need to calculate calories to get an idea of how much you can have, then so be it. You should never feel deprived from food. You should never feel completely drained from working out. You should feel good, satisfied and most importantly, you should feel alive.

So next time you are thinking about a new diet, remember to eat healthily and to be happy doing so.