How Diets Make You Gain Weight

This seems like a contradictory statement, doesn’t it? Diets are supposed to help you lose weight! But the title is often true. If you go with the popular, fad diet plans, it is only matter of time before you gain even more weight than you started with! Diets are there because people want to achieve ‘quick weight loss’. Weight loss experts are only too aware of the huge demand for instant weight loss solutions. If you ask me, they are just feeding the market’s needs.

Most diets promise you quick weight loss. Needless to say, you will lose a few pounds quicker than you might have imagined! But…that ‘loss’ is only temporary. You will gain back your ‘lost’ weight as rapidly as you lost it. Plus you’ll become all the more unhealthy and weak. If you ask me, most of the diets out there can result in severe health complications.

In this article I will tell you about two ways diets make you fatter:

1. Some diets can ruin your metabolism: When you diet, or eat irregularly, your metabolic rate won’t be steady; more often than not it will be low and sometimes it will have a sudden spike. Here is why:

You might actually lose a few pounds with dieting but that is not fat loss! You are losing weight because you are not eating enough; that is just commonsense. The few pounds you lost were actually the result of loss of water and lean muscle. When your body loses water, it becomes dry and dehydrated, and your metabolic rate almost comes to a halt.

When you lose muscle, your metabolic rate slows down. Muscles are responsible for keeping your metabolic rate high; the more muscle you have, the more fat you will burn. Moreover, muscle loss will make you weak and fatigued.

Also, you may not be able to sustain your weight loss for any length of time. You won’t be able to survive on low-calorie foods for long, neither is it possible to live on liquid diets! It is only a matter of time before you will start feeling unbearably hungry and munch on junk foods! These will of course increase your body weight.

2. Diet means failure: have you ever noticed that there is no major difference between the words ‘diet’ and ‘die’, except the ‘t’? You see, most people who diet fail to lose weight. I am sure you can corroborate this view from your own experience of diets. People tend to think that diet is a quick weight loss solution but in reality it is just the opposite. Studies have pointed out that people who don’t diet and focus on healthy eating instead are less likely to gain weight than those who follow diets! Almost 99% of people who use diets fail to lose weight.