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Yo-Yo diets.
Most people who have ever tried dieting have at
one time or another gone through yo-yo diets. These are the classic
ideal of all those who don’t like what the measuring tape is
telling
them about their waists and thighs. Everybody wants a diet and some
pills that can help them shed a significant number of pounds fast. In a
week or two, if possible.
However, all those pounds that you have been
fast to discard are coming right back in the next month or so. Probably
with some liver or stomach problems from the pills used to speed up the
process.
Yo-Yo diets always
sound like a good idea because people don’t like to
think that weight problems are long-term problems which should be
managed as such. They are looking for the miracle cure, the three-day
wonder that would fix everything in a couple of days.
Unfortunately,
long-term problems solved in three days have a way of refusing to stay
solved. It’s a sort of nudge from Mother Nature reminding
us that we should not try and hurry things, especially when
it’s
impossible to do
so. It doesn’t matter what the labels of dozens of pills say
because
weight loss is not a short term problem.
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The best weight loss advice one could get comes from dietitians and
physicians, but people tend to stay away from these professionals.
Their answers offer no hope for a simple solution and their eating
plans and diets seem to take forever. |
Trying to force a new weight gain/loss rhythm is not healthy for the body and fast diets always end up causing damage to the internal organs and decreasing the muscle mass.
What a Yo-Yo diet can
never give you is the guarantee that all the
weight lost in one week won’t return after a couple of
glasses of soda
and two or three burgers. A proper diet that takes at least four weeks
to complete allows the body to get rid of the accumulated fat and not
of water or muscle mass.
Crash diets that cut off your intake of
calories may seem to work for the moment, but your body
is going to pay heavy price as a the internal organs are left without
the required
daily nourishment.
Short term solutions always lead to long-term disasters and what looked like a sound proposition yesterday might prove to be a health hazard tomorrow.
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While
your weight problem is nothing to be proud of, there is
no magic solution that is going to make everything right just like
that. You are going to have to put together a sound eating plan,
exercise on a regular basis and make sure you’re not putting
anything
back on. |
