This diet pattern are generally deprived of good food and false eating patterns, a person may experience both Muscle and fat loss but after completion, the person experiences Starvation, it will lead to rapid weight gain of only fat stores. It can also damage arteries and cause an increase in LDL cholesterol, which will increase the risk of heart disease.
This will further lead to increased risk of heart disease, cancer, gallbladder disease and diabetes. When this hormone is present in your body over long periods of time, it can have negative health effects. Weight cycling leads to increase in the levels of cortisol which is the stress hormone. By the time the body tries to maintain an equilibrium, the person has already gained weight and this leads to weight cycling. Reducing the intake of calories and fatty foods up to half the amount however doubling this amount almost overnight.ĭue to dramatic change in eating habits will make the body over respond and over compensate to try and create homeostasis. The most common cause that is responsible for Yo-Yo effects are given below: Here we can see that Seema was initially successful in the pursuit of weight loss but then she was unsuccessful in maintaining her weight and began to gain weight. Such situations wherein a person goes through cyclical gain or loss of weight resembling the up- down motion of a yo-yo is known as yo-yo effect or weight cycling. To understand it with the example, Seema Shukla lost 2kgs in 2 weeks but after the Diwali vacations she suddenly gained 1kg and since then her weight kept fluctuating.This was because after following her diet plans for 2 weeks Seema suddenly started eating all sort of junk and unhealthy food.