Why do I gain weight as soon as I eat after dieting?

Obesity has now become a social norm. Obesity greatly affects one's appearance, so many obese people choose to lose weight. Weight loss can be divided into many types, including exercise, diet, and medication. Most people will choose the more convenient diet, but many people find that dieting is very easy to rebound, and they don't know the reason. So, why do you gain weight again as soon as you eat after dieting?

First, why do you gain weight as soon as you eat after dieting? A large part of the weight lost is water. Water makes up the largest proportion of the human body, and the water content is affected by the salt and sugar content in the body. What does dieting mean? Restricting food intake is equivalent to restricting salt and sugar intake, so when you diet, the body's salt and glycogen reserves are reduced, and excess water will be excreted from the body, and your weight will become lighter. Glycogen is the main substance that supplies energy to the human body. If the body's glycogen reserves are insufficient, the energy supply will also be insufficient, so those who are dieting will always appear listless; plus dieting will slow down the brain's reaction speed, and lack of water will also affect the functioning of the entire body... The combination of these adverse conditions will make the whole person look listless.

Second, when you resume your diet, your salt and glycogen reserves are replenished, and water will naturally stay in the body to make up for the weight of the water that was originally lost. Your weight will increase, and you will feel that the weight you lost on dieting is back in one meal. Therefore, the weight you lose by dieting is not all fat or muscle, in fact a large part of it is water weight. There is another manifestation of this, that is, when you first start to use fitness equipment, you may find that your weight is increasing instead of decreasing over a period of time, but you should rest assured that this is not because you have gained weight, but because your muscles have stored more glycogen in order to adapt to greater intensity, so the water content will also increase, and your weight will naturally go up.

Why do I gain weight as soon as I eat after dieting? In the evolutionary process of survival of the fittest, fat has long been regarded as indispensable, because fat is a way to store energy. In those days when food and clothing were scarce, fat was an important substance to keep you alive. So in the unconscious evolution, fat will be protected by the body under certain circumstances. When you diet for a period of time, your body will think that you are in a famine state, and it will lower your metabolism and reduce your consumption. Even if you eat a lot less, your body will also smartly reduce your energy consumption a lot, so slowly, you will inevitably reach a situation where you can't lose weight after dieting. Not being able to lose weight is just a small impact. After dieting, fat will tend to be synthesized because the body has entered a state of fat protection. The calories consumed tend to be more used to synthesize fat rather than to replenish muscle needs. Therefore, when obese people suddenly go on a diet, the long-term weight loss effect is often unsatisfactory. Therefore, many people regain weight in a short period of time after resuming their diet! However, those who do not diet deliberately will not enter the fat conservation state so easily. In the long run, their weight loss effect is often better than those who diet, and they are healthier!