Don't cut too many calories

Avoid drastically cutting your calories. Quick and drastic weight loss can cause issues with your body's metabolism and muscle mass. When you lose a lot of weight quickly, you really need to strictly monitor where the weight is coming from. Is it water weight, body fat or muscle mass? The majority of the time, it unfortunately comes from lean muscle mass and this is exactly what causes serious issues with your metabolism. Muscle is your body's most potent and active tissue for burning calories and body fat. It's basically your body's "furnace" and you always want to keep it burning hot. When someone loses a lot of weight, which usually comes from crash dieting or some other unhealthy way of dropping the weight, the body's lean muscle mass is cannibalized and the person loses some of the most powerful tissue for keeping a lean body.

The worst thing is when the person finally decides to get off their diet and they go back to their unhealthy eating habits. The calories go back up, but since their BMR (basal metabolic rate) is lowered and they have lost muscle mass, they end up packing on the body fat very quickly! Have you ever heard of the term "yo-yo" dieting? This is one of the main reasons why so many people have issues and hard times with their weight loss plans.