Going on a diet to lose weight is not a once in a lifetime goal, this in most cases. If the goal has been achieved, you go on a diet once, lose weight and then learn to eat less or healthily so as not to regain weight.
Raise your hand if you have only been on one diet in your life.

I see you, you are few, and I bet you are mostly men.
The others, those who have been on more than one diet, are, according to scientific studies , mostly women.

Because? A little to follow trends and a certain aesthetic ideal that make us all victims.
Partly because the woman is structurally more predisposed to gain weight, she has a slower metabolism than man, she has a body whose hormonal changes over the course of life lead to burn less, retain more liquids, tend to gain weight.

Pay attention to it: the more we repeat diets the less we lose weight, obesity is a widespread scourge today more than yesterday, yet it cannot be said that we are not informed about nutrition.

But what happens then?
Simple. You may not have noticed, but the word diet rhymes with binge.
Here because.

Because weight loss diet often rhymes with binge eating

If you have never had episodes of binges and you absolutely want to try them, it’s easy, go on a diet and suddenly you will experience the incredible and unhealthy urge to eat.

Years ago, my husband commented on my first few days of dieting with a joke: “I understand that you are trying to lose weight from the fact that the dried tomatoes are gone.”
Who would eat a jar of dried tomatoes (not in oil)? The.
Who can understand me? A person who is on a diet and has a hunger attack in which he would bite the plywood on the kitchen table.

• It is dietary stress that makes us want to overeat, and this deprivation stress will change our eating behavior. This is because the body, in calorie deprivation, raises the levels of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, and not only that. Other substances in the body, called receptors, signal that gasoline is scarce, acting both in the brain and in the intestine.
• The result is that our food cravings are headed for energy-dense foods.
  That is, with sugars and fats together.
  So we’ll be craving chips, pizza, snacks and cookies.

For our body, the choice to lose weight is often a trauma.

To make matters worse, two million women and one million men in the United States have had at least one eating disorder, according to research. Scholars find a correlation between the new disorders and what they call a toxic culture.

Diet, binge, feel guilty, punish yourself with another diet, binge again, etc.

How can you break free from this infamous cycle of bingeing?

When my husband made that joke, I gave up the diet and went back to my old regimen, the one I use to stay fit: keep portion control, exercise more, wait with extreme patience for results.

A flexible, healthy and balanced diet, not drastic in reducing calories, but perhaps with some intelligent substitutions for some foods like these that I explain here , can allow us to avoid the risk of bingeing and lose weight little but steadily.