What is diet shock? It’s a description of what happens to your body when it enters into emergency energy conservation. This occurs because your body is faced with weight loss from consuming fewer calories. This conservation state is obviously counteractive to personal weight loss efforts; but diet shock is what your body does to protect itself against the rigors of starvation. Starvation is what happens when you reduce the amount of food that you eat. Your body is biologically programmed to conserve its food source. When it believes there is a potential food loss – famine for example – it … Continue reading →