Do you agree dieting is bad for health ?
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how did you lose 121 pounds?0 -
I hate dieting from the bottom of my heart.I believe in eating proper nutritious food and exercising at regular intervals is the way to healthy living and not starving yourself.
By dieting you not only loose weight but you loose muscle mass too and leads to body going through starvation mode resulting in body being denied of essential nutrients which would lead to reduced brain functioning and premature ageing .
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how did you lose 121 pounds?
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Definition of the word diet:
1) the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats
2) a special course of food to which a person restricts themselves, either to lose weight or for medical reasons.
So no, dieting as a broad term is not bad for health. If you heavily restrict your calorie intake (under 1000) for a long time and then yes this is very likely to be bad for your health.0 -
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ummmm I think dieting is a bad stigma and people need to focus on eating healthy0
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Um. "eating a nutritious amount of food." Is still a DIET. Diet just means what you eat. In society we refer to a diet as when someone changes their regular eating habits in order to change the body- GAIN (for body builders or people with a feeder fetish) or LOSE weight.
You can change your diet in many ways- become vegetarian but eating as much food as you want, for example. OR eating only non starchy vegetables but enough to feed a whole family.
Starvation mode is real- there is some offensive and inaccurate avatar claiming it is not- but it's not something that should happen if a person takes proper care of their diet and does research first.
If you are talking about eating less or taking in less calories than your body burns off- then no, as a fat woman, I don't think what I am doing is unhealthy. Too much of a fat body % can lead to a myriad of health problems.
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diet is just the way you eat.
everyone is on a diet.
Some structured, some haphazard.
Some thought out through research, some followed by ignorance.
Some with good results, some with bad results.
Some with immediate and delayed positive benefits, some with immediate and long term negative effects.
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That's it. It's a shame the word "diet" has been so mutilated0 -
If you are never in deficit, than all your life you would be only gaining. Imagine thatPeople have different definitions of "diet".
But if you mean "caloric deficit" , I disagree.
Not necessarily, if you are really, really good at maintaining
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diet is just the way you eat.
everyone is on a diet.
Some structured, some haphazard.
Some thought out through research, some followed by ignorance.
Some with good results, some with bad results.
Some with immediate and delayed positive benefits, some with immediate and long term negative effects.
THANK YOU
That's it. It's a shame the word "diet" has been so mutilated
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I don't even call it a diet anymore. I prefer calling it a "lifestyle change," and one I've been able to stick with for almost two full years now. :happy:0
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An initial diet can be a great, motivator if that makes sense. For a person struggling with their relationship with food, being strict and in control/having rules for a while can really help a person get past the idea that they CAN'T do something. After being successful and maybe even seeing results, they can go from there making their own lifestyle and getting rid of the idea of dieting.
this is all of my opinion though.0 -
diet is just the way you eat.
everyone is on a diet.
Some structured, some haphazard.
Some thought out through research, some followed by ignorance.
Some with good results, some with bad results.
Some with immediate and delayed positive benefits, some with immediate and long term negative effects.
THANK YOU
That's it. It's a shame the word "diet" has been so mutilated
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More quoting of the correct answer is needed. Just doing my part.0 -
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Actually there's some evidence that underweight women tend to live longer. There's a sure correlation in monkeys that eat a nutrient dense but low calorie diet, a bit less easy to prove in humans. But there is at least some evidence for it. No effect on men though.
I have no plans on becoming underweight, but there is that. I have a feeling it's more the women that have high metabolisms and have trouble gaining weight, but then my GMIL barely eats and is near 100 years old...
Again, just playing devil's advocate here. I do get a little weary of people acting like it's REALLY REALLY bad to undereat/be overweight. It beats overeating/being overweight. Obviously being anorexic is taking it too far but being classified as anorexic is a way more extreme category than people think.0 -
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how did you lose 121 pounds?
swim 2.5 miles freestyle every day along with strength training0 -
Definition of DIET
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a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed
b : habitual nourishment
c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason
d : a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one's weight <going on a diet>
ETA: Maybe you should have been more transparent with the title of your thread or were you just looking to incite a all out flamewar...If you look at definition a) and b) you are on a diet.0 -
Wut?
I'm guessing this thread is going to implode.0 -
Wut?
I'm guessing this thread is going to implode.
Wut? is right.0 -
And you didn't change your eating habits that made you gain 121lbs? Meaning you ate the same way?So...
how did you lose 121 pounds?
swim 2.5 miles freestyle every day along with strength training
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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition0 -
So...
how did you lose 121 pounds?
swim 2.5 miles freestyle every day along with strength training
To be fair to you if people can create their deficit through exercise alone meaning they are eating a much higher intake than your standard dieter I think that probably gets the best gains overall in terms of performance and body composition. It is essentially what professional athletes do.
The problem with that approach is it requires a lot of free time which people don't generally have as well as motivation as well as not getting injured.0 -
none of that makes any sense cuz
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Are you referring to yourself?
There are a lot of studies going around showing that food insecurity, that people who often face the prospect of not having enough to eat have the highest rates of obesity. The eating patterns of people who run low on food stamps resemble those dieting for weight loss. When food becomes available they binge, when it's not they eat very little. Over time, their bodies adapt by converting more of what they eat to body fat. Think fat cells.
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