Dieting Causes Weight Gain

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The realization that you need to lose weight usually leads to yet another round of dieting. The only problem is that in a lot of cases dieting causes weight gain. This is especially the case if the wrong kind of diet program is followed. With the final objective being to lose weight rather than gain it how do we go about choosing the correct diet program to follow?

Lets first look at why dieting causes weight gain, when you go on a diet you are in affect denying your body the amount of food it is used to getting on a daily basis. This is the only way that you can help your body to lose weight. Our bodies have a natural and overriding sense of survival. So what happens is that when you come off your diet or stop it your body instantly creates the need to eat more food.

What your body is doing is it is saying to its self "I had better store more fat just in case we are starved again n future". This is why in a lot of cases people who follow diets tend to put on more weight than they originally had before they dieted. Also where as in the past we may have thought that being 50lbs overweight is the point I need to go on a diet, the next time you will probably push that limit to maybe 55lbs. You then start another diet, and then come off it. Your body then over eats to store more fat and next time you do not start a diet until you are 60lbs.

Anyone that has battled with their weight will recognise this problem, this is what is known as yoyo dieting. So how do we stop this from happening? The easiest way is to follow a diet plan that includes,

A natural healthy eating program.

Diet re-education
Regular exercise

A weight loss maintenance Plan

A natural healthy eating program is essential as it ensures that your body gets the correct food and vitamins it needs to remain healthy. By getting the food intake correct will also help to increase your metabolism and also help with losing weight. We all know that we need to eat plenty of natural foods such as fruit and vegetables, and that we need to reduce fatty foods and those high in sugars.

This is where diet re-education comes into play. By educating yourself and your body that healthy eating is better for you, and that you can create filling and delicious meals from natural ingredients will help you to maintain any weight loss you achieve. Also some foods when mixed together or eaten at the same time can help to increase your metabolism which means your body will burn more calories even when in a resting state than it did before.

Regular exercise is key to losing and maintaining any weight loss. Exercise will increase your metabolic rate and will help prevent your body from storing any excess fat you eat. As an added bonus you will be and feel so much healthier. If you follow these points and follow a diet program that includes a weight loss maintenance plan you will end that yoyo dieting of the past.

A good weight loss program must include advice on how to maintain your weight loss, if it does not include this as part of the program you will be wasting your time. Do not get me wrong though, you will probably lose weight to start with, but once you stop following the program that weight will slowly climb back on and you will find that the diet causes weight gain in the long term.