- The body has a self-regulating system that works without and sometimes despite our conscious intervention to diet.
- Recurrent dieting can eventually lead to weight gain. 95% of people who go on weight loss diets regain everything they have lost plus more within two years.
- Failed dieters often mistakenly blame themselves for their lack of success, when in fact there are often other reasons for their inability to control their weight.
- Every individual has different energy requirements.
- Dieting can reduce our metabolism (the rate we burn energy). Healthy metabolism returns with normal eating.
- Bad breath, fatigue, over-eating, headaches/muscle cramps, constipation, sleep disturbance and loss of bone density are just some of the effects dieting can have on our bodies.
- The unconscious activity of the body (the energy our bodies require to keep our nervous system, heart, breathing etc functioning), requires roughly two thirds of our daily energy intake.
- On a weight loss diet, the body will shed fluid and muscle tissue before shedding fat stores.
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