Are YOU on a yoyo diet?

Group: General Diet & Nutrition

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 399, Messages: 16719

With such a topic so broad we truly try to cover the basics from all angles in this group. Nothing too big or too small. Nutrition is as significant if not more as exercise is to reaching your goals so learn all you can.

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windsurfer326 Posts: 49 Joined: 2004/09/02	2004/09/12, 10:37 PM :dumbbell: This might help some pple, I read this off a book: It's like this, when you diet, in 2 weeks or so, you might have lost 5-6 pounds, but then u decide 2 let go and eat a bit of ice-cream and a lil junk food here and there. Next thing you know, uve gained the 5 pounds back. You get back on your diet and now you've lost a few pounds again. You decide to go off ure diet again... so forth.. If you lose weight, KEEP IT STEADY, cuz if your weight goes up and down, your body will lose muscle instead of fat bcuz it decides that it'll b easier to make fat instead of muscle... I hope some of this has helped sum1 out there..:)

Philia2 Posts: 4,078 Joined: 2001/10/19	2004/09/13, 02:13 AM The problem is that we all want to loose weight SO fast!! We hate that darn fat :angry: so we'll jump on a strict diet and loose our lovehandles in no time. Of course we are happy but we are also extremely tired and frustrated so when the killer diet finally is over, we happily eat again all the things we were not allowed to.... And we put on weights faster than ever since during the diet we have also lost a great bunch of lean muscle mass so our body need for energy is close to zero and our ability to burn extra calories is drastically low. My personal advice to everybody who's dieting; PATIENCE! Be nice and patient with your body, don't get frustrated and aim for 1-2lbs of fat loss per week and keep that steady. Do some resistance training and cardio but don't drive yourself too hard or overtrain. This way you'll be able to shape yourself a beautiful body, but most important is that you'll succeed in changing lifestyle and get new healthy habbits. :big_smile: -------------- - Nina :o) Les Victoires éternelles sont celles du coeur. www.nme-pro.com
DX14AG Posts: 1,055 Joined: 2004/07/22	2004/09/16, 02:49 PM thanks for all of the advice guys this really helps. I have lost 60 pounds going on a strict diet and now I am trying to gain lean muscle mass. I am in the exact situation that Philia2 talked about. I know now that I need to eat a lot to gain all the muscle and it's kinda hard going from not eating a lot, to eating a lot. Will I get fat doing this?
windsurfer326 Posts: 49 Joined: 2004/09/02	2004/09/17, 08:13 PM in order to gain muscle mass, you'd have to eat some calories, but as long as you EXCERCISE, you won't get fat.