1. The lower the calories consumed per day, the more difficult it will be for you to meet your daily protein and vitamin needs.
2. Dieting makes your body think it’s starving, so it starts saving fat, as this is its best way to store energy.
3. Losing weight means digesting your own body tissues instead of food, and unfortunately diet doesn’t tell your body which parts it needs to digest or which parts to save.
4. Crash diets cause loss of muscle mass and, if you’re unlucky, the loss can be of the heart with serious consequences.
5. Dieting will make you hard to live with and your family may want to kill you.
6. Dieting changes your body chemistry and one effect can be bad breath.
7. If you smoke, you can smoke even more to ease hunger pangs.
8. Binges, usually with very inappropriate foods, often follow the diet.
9. The diet makes you obsessed with food.
10. Breaking a diet often results in guilt, low self-esteem, and despair, often followed by a comfort meal.
11. The diet emphasizes food as a reward or compensation, known as ‘comfort food’, in which food is used to cheer us up or because it’s raining, we are somehow entitled to eat lots of sweets or cakes.
12. Dieting lowers your basal metabolic rate, which means you can live on less food, so when you return to your normal food intake that was already too high, you gain weight even faster than before and will likely end up heavier than before the diet. .
13. Dieting does not teach you to eat healthy. Eating healthy does not mean going hungry.
14. Diet often causes constipation and this concentrates toxins and carcinogens within the intestines and they are present for a longer period. Fruits and vegetables have a positive beneficial effect on the proper functioning of your digestive system.