Diets Are Fattening

The average person starts a new diet about one to three times a year, according to the Calorie Control Council in Atlanta. They may eliminate certain foods such as sweets, fried foods, red meat or alcohol. They may also try going on diets such as, the cabbage soup diet, grapefruit diets, no carb diets, and skipping meals. They deprive themselves until the pounds come off and then begin eating normally again.
You would think with all these diets the obesity rate would drop but the opposite is true, obesity is now at an all time high. Half of those who lose weight by drastically cutting calories regain or exceed their weight within a year or less. Why do diets fail? Researchers have come up with several reasons:

• Diets make your fat cells fatter. Diets only speed up the fattening process. Trying to starve a fat cell only improves its ability to retain fat. They boost up the ability of fat cells to store fat, to take in new fat, and can even increase the numbers. When our bodies think we are starving, they react by slowing down our metabolism and hold on to the fat they already have.
• Diets mess with your enzymes. Our cells produce enzymes that either encourage the body to burn fat or store fat. Dieting can double the number of fat storing enzymes and cut in half the amount of fat-burning enzymes.
• Diets put the brakes on your metabolism. When you diet you starve your body of important nutrients. Very low calorie diets can trigger a complex chain reaction that will eventually tell your metabolism to stop burning so many calories. You may lose weight initially, but eventually the pounds become harder to drop. Then when you start eating normally, it will take your metabolism a while to get back up to speed. Thus, you gain weight and usually more than what you started with.
• Diets make you rebellious. The more you deprive yourself of certain foods, the more rebellious you become. Instead of just eating a small amount of the bad food, you binge, eating well beyond fullness. Binge eating also makes you store more fat because the same number of calories is not spread throughout the day.

In conclusion, diets don’t last. With Transitions Lifestyle you will learn how to stop yo-yo dieting, eat healthy and begin exercising. Come to a free overview January 6th to find out how. Contact me for more information.