What is a "yo-yo dieter"?

What is a "yo-yo dieter"?

A yo-yo dieter is someone who has a weight that fluctuates up and down with his or her cyclical pattern of being involved in a fad diet. It can go from overindulging, to starvation, to eliminating different food groups, to exercising an excessive amount, to not exercising at all, to eating very healthy, and then eating very poorly. Aside from just not creating a balance and symmetry in your body it send a confusing message to your body. It doesn't know if it should speed up or slow down or the suchlike. When you really drastically reduce your caloric intake in one of those starvation modes, your body goes into hibernation and it slows down the metabolism. If you don't eat enough protein during that phase, your body starts to emaciate itself. It needs to get protein from somewhere, so it gets it from your muscle which is made up predominantly of protein. Then, your muscle shrinks, and then because of that your metabolism slows down. Thenthe cycle continues and unfortunately it gets worse and worse and worse. A yo-yo diet is no way to go.