Jess Sepel , an American nutritionist, defines dieting as a “vicious cycle”, and calls it ” toxic “: according to this doctor, there are better ways to stay at normal weight without restrictions or limitations, taking into account that weight tends to settle towards a normal range over time thanks to simple good habits.

When, on the other hand, it is a diet that imposes control on our body, in the long term we always tend to gain weight . The reason is simple, according to Sepel: the body experiences the diet as a stress, an imposition. Clearly, it responds to calorie restriction by losing weight, but it implements a number of strategies to defend against the same restriction, causing us endless problems for years to come. Problems that according to this nutritionist can be summarized in this scheme, and which explain why people are unable to lose weight permanently:

THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF DIETS
“You start the diet. Cut down on food portions and calories. After some time, either you have achieved your results or you just get tired of the diet. You start the maintenance, but little by little you return to your old eating habits almost without realizing it. Re-fat. Sometimes it happens that when you leave the diet you eat even more. So you end up sooner or later to regain the initial weight and even more. Say enough now . And you get back on a diet “.

The disadvantages of this vicious cycle are obviously already evident in the cycle itself, but there is more. That is, they make us live badly. Food becomes something to be controlled, an enemy. We are not natural, we are not at ease in many situations, the frustration of not being able to eat as we want and when we want poisons us every moment with others.
Some time ago I read a post on fb from a friend who said something like this: “today I risked dying from being strangled for a bite. I was saved by a miracle, and the first thing I thought was: I spent the last month on a diet “.
But how to get rid of this cage? Here are Sepel’s advice.