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Yo-Yo
Effect...harms the body
Every
future diet can perpetuate this downward cycle of muscle loss;
the chronic dieter may change their percentage of body fat
over time from 25% to 35-40%.
Surprisingly,
the scale may not show large amounts of weight change. Muscle
burns up more calories than fat and chronic dieting makes you
lose a large percentage of what helps you keep trim.
This
Yo-Yo effect of
losing and regaining can harm the body. It is better to never
have dieted at all than to keep losing and regaining the same
10 - 20 pounds.
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Lower the metabolism
As
you can see, people who diet often can lower their
metabolisms enough to decrease their caloric needs. This
can be done in two ways:
First,
a diet of less than 1000-1200 calories can actually cause
a starvation-like state and force your body to conserve
calories. The body will cut back its caloric needs to
survive. Therefore, you won't
lose more in the long run on a 500-calorie diet than you
would on one above 1000 calories. This starvation state
can lower the metabolism for as much as one year.
Second,
crash dieting can change the body's composition. Let's say
you lost 10 pounds
in two weeks. Most of that weight was water (5 pounds),
some was fat (3 pounds) and the rest was muscle (2
pounds).
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The Diet is the
Failure...Not You!
Diets
in general make you more efficient at storing calories in your
fat cells. As already mentioned above, but because it is so
important, diets slow down your metabolism, making it more
difficult to lose weight and easier to gain.
Also,
muscle mass is used for energy on a diet. The less muscle and
the more fat is on your body, the lower is your metabolism and
caloric needs. The result - you need less calories to maintain
your weight, and you gain weight twice as quickly.
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Diets
are negative, restricting, and depriving.
Diets are all or nothing -
they cause you to either fast or binge, there is no
in-between. You always crave and overeat those foods you
restrict.
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