You’ve no doubt heard of the phrase, “Yo-yo dieting”. And chances are if you’ve struggled with your weight for a long time, you may have done it. What exactly is yo-yo dieting?
The yo-yo diet is a term defined by Krause’s Food, Nutrition and Diet Therapy as “the process of losing and gaining weight several times throughout a lifetime.” Here’s what yo-yo dieting usually looks like in a person’s life.
You hear about this fantastic diet on TV and it just seems too good to pass up on. You stock up on special foods this diet requires and totally change your eating habits. Then you have a stressful day or your schedule gets messed up where you don’t have the special diet foods you need or just don’t have time to prepare a meal that’s based upon the requirements of your diet. Then the overwhelming temptation to break the diet out of convenience happens.
You end up giving in to temptation and break your diet. Then another bad or stressful day occurs and chocolate ice cream sure sounds like a good idea and you give in – to satiate your cravings and emotions.
Before you know it, you find yourself cheating on your diet several times a week and it can easily turn into binge eating, making it difficult to get back on track with the diet. Eventually you quit the diet and give up for awhile, until at a later date you decide to try a drastic diet, which fails also, and then you repeat the process. Does any of this sound familiar?
If so, then you’re in danger of yo-yo dieting. Losing weight then regaining weight and losing it again and regaining it is no laughing matter, that’s because it can put you at risk for some serious health problems, including:
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