Weight Cycling

What Is Weight Cycling?
Weight cycling can be defined as the repeated loss and regain of body weight. Weight cycling is the result of dieting; and is often called "yo-yo" dieting. A weight cycle can range from small weight losses and gains to large changes in weight.

Experts are not sure whether weight cycling can leads to health problems. Studies suggest that the possible health problems such as blood pressure, high cholesterol, and gallbladder disease.

Weight cycling may affect your mental health, due to the reason that it can make a person feel depressed about their weight.

If I regain lost weight, won't losing it again be even harder?
For the person who has been repeatedly loses and gain weight over a period of time shouldn’t have problem as against the person who is losing weight for the first time. Studies have shown that weight cycling does not affect metabolic rate – the rate at which the body burns food to generate energy. Based on these, weight cycling should not affect the weight loss program of an individual. Metabolism slows down as the person ages. In order, to improve the overall process of weight loss the person should be involves in regular physical activity as well as healthy eating habits can be a part of your life and improves the health.

Will weight cycling leave me with more fat and less muscle than if I had not dieted at all?
Weight cycling has not been blamed to increase the amount of fat tissue in people who are in process of lose and gain weight. Studies have found that after weight cycle, those return to normal weights have same amount of fat tissue as they did before starting weight cycling.

People are more worried that weight cycling can put-up some more fat around their stomach area. People who tend to carry excess fat in the stomach area, instead of in the hips, thighs, and buttocks, are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.

Is weight cycling harmful to my health?
Research on weight cycling has suggested that it may involve the risk of health problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and gallbladder disease.

Losing and gaining weight can have a negative psychological effect, which can lead to depression of gaining weight. Weight cycling should not be taken up seriously. Instead it is a way to focus on making long-term changes in your diet and level of physical activity to help you keep healthy.

Is staying overweight healthier than weight cycling?
The diseases associated with being obese are well known. These include:

* High blood pressure
* Heart disease
* Stroke
* Type 2 diabetes
* Certain types of cancer
* Arthritis
* Gallbladder disease.

Not every person who is overweight has the same of disease. Either you are a man or woman the amount and location of your fat, or your family history of disease all plays a vital role in determining your disease risk.