Question nine, this goes hand in hand with a LinkedIn response. Why am I so exhausted every time I get into a diet? The answer to this is low metabolic rate plus protein and nutrient intake is going to make the body exhausted. How do I recognize low metabolic rate? What are the signs and symptoms of this? Well, exhaustion is a biggie, feeling cold and irritable.
If you feel very sluggish, it's difficult to get up and go. It's difficult to get up in the morning without a cup of coffee. We have an increased need for sleep. Perhaps we need an afternoon sleep that typical four o'clock in the afternoon slump, and of course, increased weight gain. Now I don't know if these are signs and symptoms sound familiar to you? But I also want to point out that the signs and symptoms of slow metabolism are also used to diagnose a sluggish thyroid, but it has to ask oneself, what comes first year?
Is it the leptin or the insulin resistance they go hand in hand, or is it a true thyroid malfunction? Sometimes a little bit more investigation is needed before quick fixes thyroid medication is offered. If you address the thyroid first, without addressing the incident and the leptin resistance, you putting the cart before the horse, stimulating the thyroid long term is going to make no difference to the leptin signals. You need to address the leptin and the incident first, and very often the thyroid will resolve itself if you address those first. So dieting and calorie restriction let's have a look at that. dieting and calorie restriction they lower Your metabolic rate because of the leptin response, as I've already gone through with you, they lower your overall energy because of poor nutrient intake plus the load the load metabolic rate.
Now, if you are eating less food, this is a good chance that the amount of vitamins and minerals that your body needs for normal metabolic response is just not being made. In addition, the average diet food is not very nutritious. So when you buying light drinks or yoga light or all of these pre processed foods that are supposedly low in calories, they happen to also be very low nutrients as well. The low calorie intake leaves you lethargic, and of course that leads to depression. Plus certain vitamin deficiencies as I've discussed, such as vitamin D deficiencies met exacerbate a depression or cemetery B is actually it's a cofactor. So it's a vitamin it's very, very important in your energy cycles.
So if your vitamin B intake is low, your energy cycles are not going to be working the way that they should. The weightless response overall is very poor and unsustainable when you when you're dieting or you're on a calorie restricted diet. calorie restrictions of course, make us hungry and unhappy. And this becomes a vicious cycle. And we fail at dieting we maybe we go on it for a while, we lose a little bit of way to the beginning. It plateaus aren't we don't feel good, we feel unhappy.
And we go off the diet. And this is the classic yo yo dieting response.