This is for all people who consider themselves over weight. We do try out out a lot of things to lose these extra pounds. The first thing that we try are diets. Different people recommend different diets and I know you must be tired of trying out all of these and still add some more weight once you stop that regime and get out of it. This is a common occurrence. Once you stop a diet you tend to regain all the weight you had lost and worse you gain more weight than before. This happens because there is one major and important factor that you need to keep in mind when you want to lose weight permanently. Whatever you eat you should make sure that you never slow down your metabolism rate. But when you do you will gain more weight at a later stage. This is what happens with diets. When you are on a particular diet, like most diets you eat less and train your body to function with less calories. You try to lessen your appetite. But this results in a lessening your metabolism rate as well. When you eat less the body trains itself to survive on lesser calories. Your diet is treated as a scarcity situation by the body. Now when you lose all the weight you wanted to lose you stop the diet and shift to your normal routine. But then the body has been trained in a different way in the recent past. It still continues to store all that you eat thinking it is scarce and keeps the metabolism low. So most of what you eat is not burnt and therefore you end up putting on weight more than ever before and you also become so less energetic. So one thing you should keep in mind to lose weight is that you continue to eat what you regularly eat. But just try to improve your metabolism rate so that your body burns down all that you eat and keeps you fit and energetic.