The Yo-Yo effect

Do you know a yo-yo dieter? This is someone who needs to shed a few kilos, so they instill changes in their diet and lifestyle designed to quickly bring about results. As long as they stick to a healthy plan the weight will start to come off. At the first sign of weight loss, however, they begin to grow content and abandon the very strategy that helped them in the first place. At this point their weight balloons up again and the whole cycle starts over.

What these people fail to realise is that healthy living is not an event, but rather a lifestyle. Until they make a lasting commitment to finally follow through with and maintain a program of healthy eating and exercise, they will always bounce up and down like a yo-yo.

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