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Minuses of diets: metabolism and addiction
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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[ The downsides of diets are your health. Think about it
For a sophisticated girl who would like to lose a kilo or two, the following question is important: speed. Like in racing. Girls are interested in how quickly their body can lose excess weight in relation to the intake of calories.
And, simply put, how quickly all the body's metabolic processes "get along" with the hormonal balance. And the second factor is how much more muscle tissue they have and how much less fat, especially if we are talking about active sports.
Some people will say, "When are we going to talk about diet?" Right now we're just talking about healthy metabolism.
What happens when you exclude essential nutrients from your body?
For those people who choose diets that exclude iodine and iron, problems with the thyroid gland may arise, due to which you will not only not lose excess weight, but also gain extra pounds on top of the previous ones.
You will have to starve yourself simply to avoid doubling in size. If you eat very little with this diet choice, you will be able to lose weight.
If you randomly choose a diet that excludes protein, you can safely skip the gym, muscle mass will not increase, it will just be an illusion that you are keeping yourself in good shape.
Choosing low-calorie diets is also likely to be very harmful. You will want to sleep, lie down, rest. You will be tormented by general weakness. You will try to do many things, but not exercise.
My doctor is my savior
If you are eager to lose weight with the help of a diet, first consult your doctor. It is no secret that many diets lead to diseases. And to put it even more frighteningly - to chronic diseases. Or to disorders in the gastrointestinal tract.
When choosing diets, a large list of diseases is included in the contraindications; there is no point in listing them all.
Cons of diets: "eating addiction"
Following any diet schedule, we do not get rid of the addiction to eat something, we want to eat more and more. We begin to eat those products that are much more nutritious than the previous dishes that were before the diet.
The brain will constantly argue with your bold choice to go on a diet. It will constantly demand "forbidden fruit". Most likely, you will break the diet and start eating what is forbidden. And this is not strange - we are all human.
In ordinary human life, things like potatoes, apples, or cookies that you never liked before simply fly by. These cookies will seem like the most delicious cookies to you. And that's not strange.
Where do people with a sweet tooth come from?
Why do you think so many girls and women adore sweets? Their diets, which they had been following before, helped them. That's where such a manic passion for cakes, chocolate and candies comes from: with liqueur, nuts, fudge or other insanely delicious fillings.
The brain is just waiting for a weakness on your part, and then it pounces on everything that was forbidden to it. And this is a subconscious mechanism, it is very difficult to cope with it by willpower, and there is no point. This mechanism is your main enemy after the diet.
What are low-carb diets famous for?
The Kremlin diet, which is a low-carb diet, really helps you lose weight, it works. But in return you will get worse health for the duration of the diet and poor health. The choice is yours.
Proteins literally break down throughout your body, causing your liver, kidneys, and gastrointestinal tract (GIT) to malfunction.
On the other hand, the downside of low-carb diets is that you have to do everything quickly. Lose weight quickly and go through the distance on the way to losing weight (regime) for a short time. Then your body will not feel a big blow, as a result of a low-carb diet.
What will salt-free diets please us with?
Everything is very simple here. Salt does not lead to weight loss at all. The thing is that its absence burns the liquid in your body, due to which you lose excess weight. Fat from such diets will not become much less.
Here's another downside to such diets. If you return to your usual eating schedule with regular meals, your weight will definitely return. And the lost fluid will enter the body in liters.
10 kilograms – 10 liters
In other words, if you lose 10 kg of weight, you lose 10 liters of fluid, which will then return to your hips and other parts of the body. The disadvantages of diets are listed in sufficient quantity to think about choosing your future diet. Lose weight with sports!