Weight Loss Diets Can Be Causes For Obesity?

[victor01]

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I found on the internet this subject, for ex. Open Original Shared Link. Weight loss diets can be causes for obesity? What do you think? My wife is in a weight loss diet program and now I am worried about her.

Thank you

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If a person cuts calories too low, the body goes into conservation mode and lowers the metabolic rate. Continual extremely low-cal dieting will set a person up for greater weight gain when "normal" eating resumes. Then the person "low-cals" it to lose the weight again, thus setting up a vicious cycle. It is the cycle, the continual weight loss and gain, that causes the problems. If your wife is following a sensible plan, then she should be fine.

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  victor01 said:

Hello

I found on the internet this subject, for ex. Open Original Shared Link. Weight loss diets can be causes for obesity? What do you think? My wife is in a weight loss diet program and now I am worried about her.

Thank you

The really important thing to know about a diet is that you should never go into it with the idea that:

1) I'll do this diet and lose weight, then 2) I'll go back to my former way of eating.

For a diet to be successful, it must involve a change of view about lifetime eating. You must understand how you used to eat (which put you into an overweight and unhealthy body) and how you now must eat to be healthy and lose the extra weight. The new eating habits must replace the old. For weight LOSS, the new eating habits will involve smaller portions and more exercise. Once the goal weight is reached, you have to find a moderate way of eating to continue with forever.

The problem with most diets, and why they fail, is that people see them as a solution to the overweight problem, but then go back to old habits. THAT is why they gain back weight; it's not that they went on a diet. One has to accept that the old habits don't work!