Why do people yo-yo diet?
These are the main factors contributing to today’s problem of obesity. What most overweight people do, when they realize that they want to do something about their weight is go on a diet. Many long term, overweight individuals move from one diet to another losing a certain amount of weight, then putting it back on, in a never ending cycle. These individuals are called yo-yo dieters. Let me try and explain why this occurs: The person goes onto a diet, which creates a daily calorie deficit. The aim is that this deficit will prompt the body into using it’s fat stores to make up this deficit. Unfortunately the body does not care where these extra calories come from and will quite happily take them from muscle tissue if it sees that the muscles are not being used for any form of exercise. Initially there is weight loss, but not solely fat loss, which is the ideal situation. Over the weeks the weight lost may become less and less and the dieter loses the motivation to continue, eventually ch
