The perils of yoyo dieting.

While fitness enthusiast Garry Y. Itkin has seen more than his fair share of diet fads come and go, he still believes that nothing will ever compare to a well-balanced meal that doesn’t eliminate food groups, and has all the nutrients people need.

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That being said, Garry Y. Itkin believes that some diet fads are worse than others. Take, for instance, yoyo dieting.

Yoyo dieting is when people significantly cut back calories, only to increase intake immensely, hence the term yo-yo. In the last few decades, a lot of people have gone through this type of diet in a bid to lose weight, with very few reporting lasting success.

The reason for the failure, they say, is the sheer difficulty to adhering to an increasingly low-calorie diet. This affects their commitment to the diet, prompting them to return to their normal eating pattern, which ultimately causes them to gain more weight in the process.

For people who insist on trying out the yoyo diet, Garry Y. Itkin urges all of them to simply look at the evidence. A majority of people who’ve tried it have already cautioned others about the fad. It also has to be said that yoyo dieting alters the body’s metabolic rate so much that it gives the body no other choice but to gain weight.


The fact of the matter is, body composition is also said to change with yoyo dieting, causing a person to gain more fat and lose muscle.