why does being on a diet, make you 'fat'?

Answer 1

because all you do is think about food

Answer 2

The more diets you go on, the fatter you will get. This is cos your body starts to think that there is a food shortage and stores everything up at fat for future use. It is called starvation mode. Then when you begin to eat normally again after your diet is over, the pounds will pile back on and you will actually end up larger and heavier than you were before you started. This happens to 98% of peope who go on slimming diets, even ones that were very successful and lost a lot of weight. The only answer is to forget about "diets" and just eat as healthily as you can, do moderate exercise and your body shoud find its own natural level of weight. Everyone is different and no particular shape and/or size is the perfect one for everyone, but believe me no one finds the Belsen victims that we call super-models attractive, so don't go down that road!

Answer 3

It maybe that you are holding water in (water retention) or that you are not eating enough calories to sustain your body's needs....the body needs a certain amount of fuel just to get through the day and if you are starving the body (reducing calories drastically, skipping meals etc) the body will think it is going into starvation mode. If it thinks this it will store what you eat as fat...hence why you think you are putting weight on rather than losing it as you would think.

You need to eat 3 meals per day, even if they are smaller meals....it is better to lose the weight over a longer period of time as it will stay off then - if you lose it too quick it will be water and not fat ....combine the reduction with exercise to tone up the body and build muscles...muscles use more calories than fat alone..but muscle weighs more (so don't be thinking you have put weight on if you are exercising and building muscle).

Hope this has explained it in a sensible way for you...x

Answer 4

Starving yourself makes your body save fat and energy incase you don't get any food for awhile. It is a ancient mechanism from way back when sometimes food was scarce and People had to go without. The body holds onto energy so you don't get thin and weak. Also deniying yourself favourite foods can lead to binges later. Plus you are often thinking about food and calculating calories and points and all that so you get obsessed. Little and often and everything in moderation is best.

Answer 5

Your brain sends signals to your body telling you it is starving. The number of fat cells in your body alerts the brain of this and it shuts your whole metabolic system down. Don't give up, but don't deprive yourself either. Remember, the weight we lose from any diet that forbids us certain foods, will be regained when we are off the diet. We can never lose the number of fat cells in our body, we can only shrink them.

Answer 6

what kind of diet you on, if your on an I wont eat nothing so Ill get skinny quick, then think again your bady goes into starvation mode and stores everything as fat!! Eat little, often healthy enjoy the odd snack do exercise and theres your perfect diet, just a simple change of life style is all it takes!!

Answer 7

Remain faithful to a more low fat protein/green vegetable eating habits

Answer 8

set a lesser amount of meals out and you will acquire less in

Answer 9

Diet not gonna makes you fat but psychologically women tend to take skinny supermodels as their idol..That's why......Which you choose....healthy or dead?

Answer 10

well the minute you tell yourself you can't have something is the minute you want it more. never restrict anything form your diet but just cut down and balance it out.

Answer 11

it doesn't, that just means that that person is trying to reach as close to the right body fat to there age and gender as possible.