Today is the last day of winter, tomorrow we are entering the first day of spring as we enter March. Last week, cemre fell into the air. So SUMMER IS AT THE DOOR!!
Even if there is a pandemic in the summer months, everyone wants to look more beautiful and slimmer. That's why March - April - May are diet months. As of the end of September, the diets that were stopped are returned again. It is easy to keep the weight gained throughout the winter. After all, we will be dieting again before summer. We call this seasonal diet craftsmanship.
First of all, let's look at what diet is. The diet is NOT a program to lose weight. Diet; It is the sum of all the foods eaten and drank during the day. In other words, your diet is what you eat and drink in a day.
A seasonal diet worker spends his year like this; Not paying attention to nutrition, especially with the arrival of the winter months, starting to overeat with the new year, gaining more than the weight before losing weight, working hard and torturing yourself and losing weight with the spring months, not relaxing a little in the summer months and returning to the beginning. There is something I want you to pay attention to here. GAIN MORE WEIGHT THAN BEFORE!
This situation especially happens in people who think about starving when we say diet. When you push aside your own eating habits and starve yourself and go on very low-calorie diets to achieve your goal, you disrupt the functioning of your body. You invite chronic diseases and endocrine diseases. You may lose your health.
The body learns to live with little energy while you starve it. So you put your body into famine. But when winter comes and you relax, that's when the body starts to store fat very quickly because it is going through a famine, and it tends to store more fat in case of a famine again. We call this give-and-take cycle the yo-yo cycle / syndrome.
What should you do?
· Don't be a seasonal diet worker.
· Don't get into the yo-yo cycle.
· Do not follow very low-calorie diets.
· Do not follow lists circulating on the internet.
· Do not follow diets marketed as fat burners. Do not rely on foods, medicines or nutritional supplements.
· Try to replace your bad eating habits with good ones without starving yourself. Create a moderate calorie deficit.
· Add a sport that you really enjoy to your life and make it a routine.
· If it is difficult for you to do these, get help from us dietitians who will be with you and help you.
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