So how does this picture of all the information that we've got so far fit in with a real life example? Now we know how weight slowly increases and insulin impacts on our weight gain. But let's look at leptin and insulin in real life. It's same, that after a few years of incident flooding and we are now insulin resistant, we're 10 kilograms overweight. And because we are overweight and we carry more fat, our brain has also been constantly flooded with leptin, and our brain is leptin resistant as well. We now know we know that this is unhealthy, and we're not feeling good about our body anyway.
So we decided to go on a diet and like anyone, we want a quick result. So perhaps we pick one that's quite strict with regard to calorie intake, because this time we are determined we are going to lose weight. So you prepare yourself you shuffle The low fat low calorie foods and we start the diet. Initially we lose some weight, maybe a kilogram or two. And of course, this is fabulous without first week, and we've lost some weight. After a week, leptin registers that there's less food coming in, and this has been going on for a week.
Now remember leptin is all about survival. So the body now freaks out, and the metabolic rate is lowered through the thyroid. Now the weight loss slows down a fraction, but because we determined we catch back a little bit more, or perhaps we add a touch of exercise, and we lose a little more weight. Absolutely fantastic. But now, after two weeks of low calorie intake, we're beginning to feel tired, lifted and of course in the meantime, has lowered the metabolic rate still more and we eating less than our basal metabolic requirements. So leptin being all about survival keeps the basal metabolism low.
And we may force ourselves to exercise, but we're exhausted, ready and cold. We're not feeling our usual buoyant self at all. The lower metabolism gives us brain fog. And because we're feeling a bit depressed, we now break our diet with comfort food. And we cheat. We think you know what, it's not going to be long, maybe just for today.
But because our metabolic rate is now so low, we cannot burn the increased intake. Plus Lipton goes into emergency emergency restock mode, and we gain the way that we lost and maybe even a little bit more. And we may repeat this process many times, each time feeling more of a failure, more hopeless. And we don't know that it's Lipton, the disk sabotage our weight loss program. So there it seems to make logical sense that reducing your calorie intake will result in weight loss. The reality isn't so it's more about eating the right foods rather than this food.
And this avoids that hunger, leptin, insulin response. That is a downward spiral.