Why calorie controlled diets usually fail long-term

I am positive that you have found yourself in the situation before. You start putting on a little weight, until ultimately you decide to go on a diet. There are so many diets to choose from, but a lot of them suffer the same crucial problem. Once you terminate the diet, you gain back the weight that you lost, and usually a lot more to boot. You notice what is happening to your body, so you make up your mind to go on another diet. This weight loss, gaining it back, and needing to go on another diet, is commonly referred to as yo-yo dieting.

Your body is a machine that requires fuel, with the food you eat being that fuel. The rate at which you burn that food is called your metabolic rate. Its the speed that your body is processing the individual tasks that it need to finish, including cracking the food into tiny peices so that it can be absorbed into your body's circulatory system and sent to the areas of your body that need it. When food is in scarce, the body responds by slowing down the metabolism, meaning you then need less nutrients to maintain correct bodily function. However, your body is not now working at optimum capacity. When food returns, your mateoblic rate will bit by bit return to normal as well.

When you go on a diet, your body is fooled into thinking that food is in limited supplies. It responds by slowing your metabolic rate, which means that to maintain life, you body then needs less energy. As you continue to diet, your metabolism continues to slow down. Since your body is requiring less and less energy to survive, you find that your weight loss actually slows, and even stops because your body is using much less energy for its everyday tasks.

When you eventually break from the diet, your body is needing a lot less nutrients than it use to, but virtually all dieters go back to their familiar eating habits. If you put weight on in the first place, it means that you use to eat too much, but with your metabolic slow-down after the diet, you are now consuming a lot more food than you need. The result is that the fat is quickly deposited back on your hips, thighs and tummy. In fact, many dieters end up putting back more fat than they lost initially.

Calorie controlled diets are not the answer to lasting weight loss. You need to significantly change your lifestyle - yes, its a lifestyle change and not a quick fix solution. You have to increase your activity levels and eat more healthily, cutting back on the sausages & bacon and iced buns and introducing more fresh fruit and vegetables.

Suzzie Mannering is interested in Commercial Grade Toaster Ovens and other food & diet related topics.

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