Many people will rebound after dieting and losing weight.
Mann, an associate professor of psychology at UCLA, conducted a one-year follow-up study on people who went on a diet to lose weight. Unfortunately, they got a shocking result: 465,438+0%, and many people are fatter than before losing weight. Mann said that although this figure makes many people feel depressed, "we still have many reasons to believe that this ratio is underestimated."
Reasons for the rebound
Why is dieting useless? Mann believes that there are two main reasons:
First, it is really difficult to change eating habits;
Second, even if you lose weight successfully, the law of decreasing dieting effect is feasible.
Mann said that when you stick to a low-calorie diet, your body will adjust its metabolism, making it more and more difficult to lose weight. Your body will become very efficient, so if you want to continue to lose weight, you will eat less and less, and it will become more and more difficult for you to stick to it.
Lifestyle change is the most useful.
Dr. Melly Foster, founder of the Center for Weight Management at the University of Pittsburgh, agrees with Mann. Fust believes that "it is not easy to lose weight, but it is more difficult to keep it". Lifestyle change is the most useful long-term weight loss plan. She believes that the most basic problem is that people usually regard dieting as a short-term "hell-like" weight loss tool, and then return to the original lifestyle after achieving the effect. Once you stop dieting, your weight will soon show its true colors.
She made an image metaphor: taking medicine to control high blood pressure or cholesterol, after stopping taking medicine, blood pressure or cholesterol will return to the original high level. Dieting has the same effect on obesity. Once you stop dieting, you will gain weight again.
Reasons for the difficulty of dieting and losing weight
Why is it so difficult to diet and lose weight? The main problem is that people usually isolate dieting as a single way to lose weight. Dieting is most susceptible to social life. What you are doing and who you are with will affect your diet plan. Especially in this fast-paced society that advocates fast food and junk food, it is not easy to change lifestyle.
Foster suggested losing weight for health and changing lifestyle for weight loss. Lifestyle changes, including proper diet, more exercise, managing stress (don't use food as a tool to reduce stress), make yourself happy. Therefore, simple dieting is more harmful to lose weight, but the effect will be more obvious if it can be combined with other methods, but we still advocate a method of losing weight without dieting.