Is Non-Scientific Dieting Dangerous?
Many overweight people think that non-scientific dieting is the way to go when wanting to lose some weight.
There’s no wonder that so many of them complain about the yo-yo effect of their diets. When they finish keeping the fad diet, they come back to their previous eating habits, therefore weight accumulates back again, even more than when they first started the diet. In time, these weight fluctuations have an effect on the fat-muscle ratio: there’s more and more fat, detrimental to the muscular mass. This is why you may end up with the same weight but looking fatter. Fat is very light, so one pound of fat looks much bigger in volume than one pound of muscles.
Each time you go for a restrictive diet, hoping to get fit for some important event in your life, but then return to your bad eating habits, you just harm yourself. Why wouldn’t you try to get long-term results and stay fit for your whole life, rather than struggling to fit into your favorite dress for one night?
Forget non-scientifical fad diets and go schedule a consultation with a nutritionist. Health is just too valuable to waste it for the sake of fitting inside a dress every now and then.
I’m the living proof that such diets are dangerous. I’ve been trying the grapefruit diet, then went even bigger, then I tried the Atkins for a while, but I had to stop because it was causing me health troubles. Then I got even fatter. This is not the way to go. I think doctors can give you a better alternative.