The familiar phenomenon of yo-yo or weight cycling is the result of restrictive dieting combined with bad food habits, and is a temporary decrease in body weight followed by weight gain equal to or greater than it was before.
This up and down weight has negative consequences for health, as reported by Dr. Susana Monereo, Head of Section of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital of Getafe in Madrid.
“Today, there is enough scientific evidence to reliably correlate of weight regain after dieting, with multiple comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular diseases, increased mortality and an increased final weight of about 30 percent over initial weight.
To avoid such complications should be aware of what we do, a diet to lose weight quickly as seasonal diets or those made urgent by a social event, not a solution.
The healthy option is to change our eating habits and incorporate physical activity into our daily routine. A balanced eating plan combined with a training program will ensure we maintain weight loss and health benefits.
To understand the problem we take the explanation of Monereo: energy balance that regulates body weight decreases or increases depending on the intake spending, but with a clear trend towards energy saving. Thus, if intake increases, spending increases slightly whereas if intake is reduced, the reduction in expenditure is much higher. That is, the answer clearly tends to preserve body fat as energy reserve.
Put more simply, to make a weight loss diet depriving the body of energy sources and therefore relies on the reservations we have in the form of fat, this works, the result is manifested by weight loss.
But most people once they reached the goal of timely diet, return to their previous eating habits, then the body begins to store energy as fat to be fit for next season energy deficiency.
Thus, not only recovers the lost weight or increased, but body composition changes with a greater tendency to fat accumulation as a whole, and especially in the abdominal area.
These fluctuations in body weight affect metabolism and mood, with the increased cardiovascular risk the most serious consequence.
Therefore it is advisable to maintain body weight according to our abilities and lifestyle if we really want to lose weight, get toned muscles or look thinner, you must be consistent both with power and with the level of physical activity required .
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