*chilli*body*

I consider the word ‘yo-yo effect’ a rather redundant term. It doesn’t really make sense to me. A yo-yo goes up and down - in terms of nutrition its meaning is that you start to change your eating-behavior and end up where you started. What people do now is to give this circumstance a name in order to make it sound better than saying ‘I failed‘.

The other thing is that many people who want to diet obviously don’t see their current eating-behavior as inappropriate. They diet and afterwards…
And this is where it all starts. Most people don’t seem to understand why they are losing weight. Actually it’s because their eating-behavior while they are dieting is ‘more normal’ than it was before. Doesn’t the word ‘afterwards’ then mean that they want to return to the eating-behavior they considered normal before thinking about a diet?

Diets are only there to lose weight for a certain time. In order to stay ’slim’ for a longer period of time or even forever you have to change your entire eating-behavior. Bearing that in mind you actually don’t have to worry about a so-called ‘yo-yo effect’. It’s simply a synonym for ‘failure’.

Always bear this quote in mind when thinking about a change!

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