I hate to be the bear of BAD news, but you totally SCREWED your metabolism. By starving yourself you’ve down-regulated your metabolism and if you go back to normal eating, you’ll gain ALL the weight back and MORE!

Starving yourself to lose weight is very bad for your metabolism and your hormones, specifically these 4

When in a caloric deficit for a long period of time the body switches into a conservation state or commonly called, “starvation mode.”

Our bodies are very smart and is designed to keep us alive especially under stressful conditions.

For dieters who put themselves under strict dieting conditions with a drastic drop in calories the body slows things down especially the fat burning process.

The body can actually begin to breakdown muscle tissue for energy especially if the dieter is also engaged in exercise

A severe caloric deficit looks like this:

900+ calories below your baseline or maintenance calories. What should that be? Your body-weight x 15. So if you’re 200 pounds you should be consuming around 3,000 calories a day to maintain your weight. If you’re consuming 2100 calories or less, you’re killing your metabolism.

The only way to fix your metabolism is to slowly and I mean slowly increase your calories. You basically have to do reverse dieting.

If you just jump right back into normal eating you’ll gain that weight back and possible more.

If you want to restore your metabolism the right way, here are 8 metabolism boosters pertaining to diet<=