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WHY
DIETS DON'T WORK You hear of a new "wonder" diet – some new magical combination of fat burning foods – and hope springs eternal again. Remember being on a diet? Perhaps you were successful and lost weight. In most cases, however, the weight doesn't stay off. You probably think it was something you did that resulted in your failure to maintain that lower weight, but the fact is that the diet failed you. Once you go off the diet, you will probably gain back all the weight you've lost plus a few pounds. In fact, this happens to 95-98% of people who lose weight on a diet, so you're not alone. Diets have never worked in the long run and they never will. Let's look at the dynamics of dieting, and how it affects you physically and emotionally. The "Yo-Yo" Effect On Your Body When you diet, you create an artificial context of famine. When you go off the diet and go back to eating a normal amount of food for your size and build, your body is relieved that the "famine" is over, and busily goes about storing even more fat for the next period of "starvation." This
is what has allowed our species to survive, much to the dismay of the
repeat dieter, because it creates the "yo-yo" syndrome of
weight loss and gain. The dieter finds it ever more difficult to lose
weight as time goes by. Unless you find a way to increase the body's
ability to burn fuel, through exercise and other means, the unfortunate
result will usually be weight gain after going off a diet.
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