Thread: 7 Reasons Not to Diet

7 Reasons Not to Diet



1. Lack of Nutrition


Contrary to popular belief, most diets are not healthy and may actually border on malnutrition. Many urge us to do extreme things, forgo our favorite foods or cut major food groups in order to lose weight. Healthy eating requires ALL nutrients (carbs, fats, and protein) and a minimum number of calories in order to maintain health and proper body function.

For 2011: Focus on eating foods that are nutrient rich and that provide you with the balance to keep you feeling satisfied.





2. Unsustainable Behavior

Depriving your body shocks your body into losing weight, but once it gets over that shock, it adapts. How? By slowing down your metabolism, going into unhealthy physical states (such as ketosis), or stopping weight loss. So, even if you have the mental willpower to diet forever, your body doesn’t.

For 2011: Change to a mindset of eating healthy as a lifestyle, not as dieting. This will help you to lose excess pounds and maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime … not just for bikini season.




3. “Yo-Yo”

When you deprive yourself to an extreme, you end up craving to an extreme. One day you’re “extremely good,” the next “extremely bad.” You may have heard this called “yo-yo dieting.”

For 2011: Implement a philosophy of moderation. Enjoying the foods you love and the treats you crave once in a while will help you to crave foods less overall.





4. Life Doesn’t Support Dieting

Diets often require us to change our eating habits in such a way that normal life becomes difficult. Eating out, going over friends’ houses for dinner, special occasions all become “problems.” These things, however, are the very things that make life worth living! Most of us are busy and can’t always shop, cook, and calorie-count the way many diets require.

For 2011: Find ways to fit healthy eating into everyday life so that you can enjoy life and be healthy. Discover which nutritious foods you love that make healthy eating delicious!






5. Lack of Energy

Dramatically reducing your calorie intake can result in reduced energy levels and fatigue. Instead, it is important to understand which foods provide you with quality nutrition.

For 2011: Eat small meals often. This strategy can actually stimulate weight loss, keep you satisfied, and make you feel energetic.





6. Quantity vs. Quality

Dieting doesn’t really teach you how to eat for the long term. You may be counting calories while eating foods that actually make you hungrier or cause you to crave more.

For 2011: Learn what foods are the most satisfying and most nutritious. The more nutritious the food you eat, the less hungry you will be. You’ll make smarter choices and lose weight without focusing on every calorie you ingest.




7. Uni-Dimensional

In order to truly lose weight, you have to eat well and be active. I’m not saying you have to run a marathon, but as we get older, our metabolisms naturally slow down. The more active you are, the more calories you burn and the higher your metabolism will stay.

For 2011: Be active. Even if it means taking stairs instead of the elevator, walking at lunch hour, walking to work instead of taking the train … just move.

Change your life by changing your mentality toward health, nutrition, and wellness. Stop dieting, start eating, and start seeing the results that you want … for the long term!






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7 Reasons Not to Diet | Amazing Facts

1. Lack of Nutrition
+sugars.And u could change the food...Im weekend i make 1-2 meals out of diet...to shck the body,and to make him start burning.
2. Unsustainable Behavior
Agree,but takes 2 mouch time when u start...U need like 5-6 mounts.With ketogenic diet in 1 month i make a top quality.

Interesting.
On a side not I've read the thread title as "7 Reasons Not to DIE" :)

After a long diet we would be more hungry and craving as you said and we will put even more weight that we had before so its a bad idea. My idea of a good diet is by not eating junk food and too much sodas which have a lot of calories and do exercises.
Thanks for the article! very useful for beginers and not only!

do exercises is the best way to loose weight

And to adapt a healthy nutrition early in life. That way you never gain fat, that you have to train off again.

That's what I'm doing now, to avoid the problems my father currently has. :)

Lol, the problems with dieting are common knowledge to any bodybuilder. However, in this culture, people are obsesssed with quick fixes, instant gratification, and easy, effortless results. Which is why dieting is so appealing.

The problems in the OP arent even the main problems.

One issue is this:

- Very low calorie diets + no intense, muscle sparing exercise, i.e weight training, is a recipie for muscle loss. That means that even if you "succeffully" lose weight, youll most likely end up with the dreaded skinny-fat look, since youve lost half your muscle which is largely responsible for how you look in a bathing suit.

The OP mentioned "yo-yo"dieting, but completely missed the real physiological aspects of it. Fat is energy dense, and valuable to the body when it senses energy is spares. I.e. the "survival mechanism".

The body is adaptive. That means it prioritizes. Weight training is the only thing (steroids help, too... if you want that) that signals the body to maintain muscle mass in a period of extended low calories. Without this, fat tissue is more valuable than muscle mass.

Your body partitions the energy you consume. When you are exercising and training, this shifts more of the energy you consume towards muscle tissue and metabolism. Dieting off and on, off and on again, esp with no real exercise program (walking 30 minutes 3x per week is not an exercise program, unless youre 80), is a great way for energy storage (fat) to be more favored.

Weight loss isn't the same thing as fat loss.

Don't diet because it is not what any being is supposed to do. One can control their diet but to deprive your body of food when it requests it is totally not listening to your body. It goes against "common sense". If you are hungry, eat.

I have never dieted but I do sometimes think about what I am eating. When I am about to get some biscuits, I do sometimes stop myself, and go 'no if you need a snack have some fruit instead'