Additionally, weight loss during crash diets doesn’t continue for a very long time. Eventually, you will find yourself hitting a weight loss plateau, during which it will become more and more difficult for you to lose weight. The majority of crash dieters find that this weight loss plateau is followed by a period of weight gain. Many followers of crash diets even end up putting back on all of the weight they lost, along with additional pounds. This is known as the yo-yo diet effect: just like the up and down motion of a yo-yo, crash dieters find that their weight is constantly fluctuating with each diet that they go on.

What Causes The Yo-Yo Effect? Crash diets are linked to the yo-yo diet effect because of the impact that this type of starvation diet has on your body’s metabolism. In order to support all of the functions that your body performs on a daily basis, your body needs to burn a certain amount of calories. The rate at which your body burns calories is known as your metabolism. During crash diets, your body eventually clues in to the fact that it is receiving a very low number of calories. As a result, your body actually adjusts its metabolism, so that it burns fewer calories in order to perform all of its necessary bodily functions. This means that it takes fewer calories for you to gain weight, making it more and more likely that you will put on weight at the end of your diet. Your body can maintain this decreased metabolism for a number of months, or even years, after a serious low-calorie diet.

 Crash diets aren’t only a poor way of losing weight and maintaining healthy weight loss, but they are also very dangerous for your body. There are both short-term and long-term health effects that you could experience by following a strict crash diet. Mental Health Problems Crash diets are extremely hard on your overall mental and emotional health. Not only do crash diets cause extreme food cravings, but they can also wreak havoc with your mood: you may find yourself feeling more irritable or depressed than usual when you are on a crash diet. Crash diets can also set people up for serious mental health disorders, particularly eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia.

 Low calorie diets tend to be very restrictive, and you will find that you will be unable to eat healthy foods. In fact, long-term crash dieting can result in serious nutritional deficiencies, as a result of eating a poor variety of foods. In particular, crash dieters are putting themselves at risk for: • iron deficiency anemia • vitamin B12 deficiency • potassium and sodium deficiency Potassium and sodium deficiency is particularly dangerous. These electrolytes are used by your body to ensure proper nerve and muscle function. They play a particularly important role in regulating the way that your heart beats. If potassium and sodium levels become low enough, you could suffer from a heart attack.

 Crash diets are extremely dangerous for your vital organs, including your heart, kidneys, liver, and brain. In order to perform their daily functions, your vital organs rely on energy from your carbohydrate intake. During strict crash diets, carbohydrate and calorie intake is so low, that your organs cannot get enough energy from these sources.

 As a result, your organs begin to burn muscle tissue in order to get adequate amounts of energy to perform vital functions. If your calorie intake becomes low enough, your body will even begin to burn the muscle tissue that makes up your actual organs in order to provide your brain with sufficient energy to function. This can result in serious health problems, including: • liver failure • kidney failure • heart attack • stroke Osteoporosis Long-term crash dieters frequently suffer from osteoporosis, a disease that causes the bones in your body to become extremely brittle. This is because fast crash diets severely limit your intake of calcium.

 As a result, calcium begins to leach out of the bones in your body, leaving them particularly fragile. Many crash dieters suffer broken bones, particularly hips and wrists, as a result of their osteoporosis. 

 If you are intent on losing some weight, it is best to avoid crash and yo-yo diets at all costs. Instead, engage in healthy weight loss methods by following these tips:

 • Speak with your doctor before beginning any weight loss plan. She can provide you with tips on how to lose weight safely. • Don’t cut back on calories too quickly. Instead, slowly reduce calories so that your body’s metabolism doesn’t slow down. • Focus on limiting portion sizes and choosing healthier food options. Pair this with regular exercise and you will find that the weight drops off! • Look at your weight loss plan not as a diet, but as a healthy new lifestyle. This will encourage you to continue to with healthy eating habits on a long-term basis.

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The amount of fat stored in the body will increase with every diet the slimmer embarks on. When a person loses weight, both fat and muscle tissues are lost. When the weight is regained, as it always is, it is usually  made up of a greater proportion of fat and less lean muscle, leaving the person with more fat stores than before. Besides that, a history of loss and gain is associated with greater amounts of fat stored in the abdomen, a pattern of fat distribution linked to greater risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Some studies suggest that Yo-yo dieting may increase the risk for certain health problems. These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and gallbladder disease.
The yo-yo diet is one type in a class of many extreme fad diets. Also known  as “weight cycling,” the yo-yo diet is characterized by a cyclical pattern of repetitious loss and gain of body weight. Some of the ways people choose to do this include skipping meals and consuming very few calories, practically starvation tactics. However, the yo-yo diet is an  unsuccessful and even harmful weight loss technique. Dieters often experience initial success, but due to its overwhelming toll on the body, the inability to continue this strict regime of  weight loss in the long run causes dieters to regain all of it back and then some.

Repeated cycles of loss and gain take a psychological toll. Many dieters perceive each unsuccessful attempt to keep
weight off as a personal failure. The result, over time, is erosion of self-esteem coupled with depression and even guilt.
 
This pattern of losing and regaining weight is weakening their immune systems. Women who have tried to lose weight this way more than five times will have  about a third lower natural-killer-cell function. On the other hand,women who manage to maintain their weight for five or more years have 40 percent greater natural-killer-cell activity as compared to those whose weight had remained stable for less than two years.
 
Nature is a wonderful thing, when a person tries to go on a starvation diet,
 their weight loss consists of losing both muscle and body fat. When the body senses that it is quickly losing its energy source, it kicks on its famine response, a defense mechanism that aims to protect fat stores by using up lean tissue and muscle for energy instead. This weakens the stability of muscles. Because the amount of muscle in the body is directly proportional to metabolic rate, a loss of muscle also means the loss of metabolic rate. While this process naturally occurs in the case of actual famine, it is not suitable or healthy for a regular weight-loss diet.

The yo-yo diet works in such a way that it is harder each time to lose weight. As the yo-yo nears the end of its string, the plastic spool starts spinning slower. Similarly, the yo-yo diet follower may find it more and more difficult to lose any weight, leading to depression and lack of self esteem. As soon as the dieter starts attempting to eat normally again, all the weight regained will be stored in the form of fat. The yo-yo diet essentially tampers with a healthy body’s normal fat-to-muscle ratio, which is a primary aspect of good health.

Fad diets in general are too extreme on the human body. Many times, radical food deprivation is misleadingly perceived as a substitute for good diet and exercise habits. However, people’s susceptibility to the yo-yo diet process is the result of many dynamic factors, including biological factors (genetics, hormones, and biochemicals), emotional and motivational support, and misguided expectations. The environment also plays a huge role, since everywhere we turn we face pressures from images in mass media of supposedly perfect body shapes.

Experts agree that the yo-yo diet is not a healthy way to lose weight in the long run. Alternatives that help dieters lose their excess poundage without altering the body’s fat to muscle ratio do exist. Some of these tips include:
1. Aiming for achievable, small weight loss goals
2.Cutting calorie consumption gradually over time
3. Always eating breakfast
4. Modifying exercise and activty levels to sustain muscle mass while losing weight
5. Taking a really close look at what motivates you when, and why you eat

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