- Sharp and targeted restriction of energy consumed with food (calorie intake). For example, it could be following a well-known diet, or just counting calories and setting strict limits.
- Limit food diversity and eat the same kind:
- Low carb diet: protein diet, atkins diet;
- A diet rich in fats;
- Juice diets.
- Irregular meals:
- Hourly diet;
- Diet 5: 2 (five days a week we eat normally and two days a week - we significantly limit food);
- Skipping food;
- "Fasting Days", e. ი. Refuse to eat on certain days.
Who is on a diet?
Diet is common and popular. It is estimated that about half of women of normal weight have tried the diet. One study found that almost 70% of 15-year-old girls are on a diet and 8% of them follow an extremely strict diet. Another study showed that about 70% of women and 45% of dieters are not overweight and do not need to follow any diet.
Diet is preceded by your body dissatisfaction and desire to lose weight.
A UK study has shown that two-thirds of 14-15 year old girls and half of 12-13 year old girls want to lose a few pounds. Due to stress, a quarter of young girls missed at least one meal a day.
Dietary risks
Diet increases the risk of eating disorders. Scientists have found that if adolescent girls eat moderately, the risk of developing eating disorders increases fivefold, and with a strict diet - eighteen times.
Frequent, strict diet promotes excess weight. 95% of those who follow a diet to lose weight gain more in the next two years than they lost as a result of the diet. This is due to the fact that during the diet people are very limited in the number of calories and a variety of dishes, suffer from constant hunger. For a while, dieters may ignore hunger, but after a long diet, appetite increases and they eat. This, in turn, leads to feelings of guilt and failure, which can exacerbate dissatisfaction with yourself and your body. Some people go through a similar diet cycle for the rest of their lives - that is, the diet takes up their time and energy on a daily basis.
In addition, it has been found that diets slow down metabolism - slowing down the burning of calories.
Normal metabolic rate is restored after some time when a person returns to a healthy and adequate diet.
Strict diet affects both mental and physical health. Bad breath, fatigue, overeating, headaches and cramps, constipation, sleep disturbances and possibly bone destruction may occur.
Diet can change the body's natural response to food, needs and appetite. A person stops feeling hungry and full, he can stop distinguishing his emotional needs from hunger.
Why do we go on diets?
Many people of normal weight consider themselves overweight and want to lose weight by following a diet. Also, many overweight people want to lose extra pounds and believe that diet will help in this.
It is known that about მოსახლე population of the world is overweight, but about twice as many people want to lose weight.
They are on a diet out of thin desire. The global search for obesity has many causes, one of which is the equally common fear of getting fat. It has been revealed that such fears may already appear in primary school students. For some reason, in our society perfection is considered shameful and condemned.
Through advertising, the desire to go on a diet is supported by people who are focused on everything related to diets (diet, books, groceries and other goods). Because we are in a very lucrative industry, the diet industry is unnaturally optimistic about diets. In fact, it has been found that half of people on a diet gain weight - few of them can maintain the weight lost as a result of the diet for 5 years.
The success of a strict diet depends on many physical and mental factors, and in obesity it is very ineffective for weight loss.