Nerdy Millennial

Top Menu

  • About
  • Contact
  • Write For Us

Main Menu

  • Career
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Blogging
      • Social Media
      • SEO and Keyword Research
  • College
  • Arts & Culture
  • Technology
  • Health and Fitness
    • Nutrition
    • Recipes
      • Baked Goods
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments
      • Dessert
      • Fermented Foods
      • Main Dishes
      • Side Dishes
      • Snacks
      • Soup
    • Keto
    • Vegan
  • Relationships
    • Dating
    • Friendship
    • Parenting
    • Pregnancy & Birth
  • About
  • Contact
  • Write For Us

Nerdy Millennial

Nerdy Millennial

  • Career
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Blogging
      • Social Media
      • SEO and Keyword Research
  • College
  • Arts & Culture
  • Technology
  • Health and Fitness
    • Nutrition
    • Recipes
      • Baked Goods
      • Breakfast
      • Condiments
      • Dessert
      • Fermented Foods
      • Main Dishes
      • Side Dishes
      • Snacks
      • Soup
    • Keto
    • Vegan
  • Relationships
    • Dating
    • Friendship
    • Parenting
    • Pregnancy & Birth
Health and FitnessNutrition
Home›Health and Fitness›5 Long Term Consequences Of Crash Dieting

5 Long Term Consequences Of Crash Dieting

By Contributing Author
August 11, 2015
1545
2

 

Are you overly conscious of your weight? Have you been considering following a crash diet that will help you lose weight quickly? You should be warned that crash diets may have short-term benefits, but they have long-term negative consequences. They will ensure that you lose the extra pounds swiftly, but you are likely to gain it back along with other health disorders. Here is a list of consequences you are likely to face if you undertake a crash diet:

Regain Lost Pounds

Weight lost owing to crash dieting has a yo-yo effect. You will obviously lose the extra pounds because you force yourself to be on a diet that has a daily intake of fewer than 1000 calories. Normally, you require at least 1200 calories for your daily activities, but when on a crash diet, you eat only 530 to 700 calories. Also, the weight lost from crash dieting is predominantly your body’s water weight. Once you start following a proper diet again, you will inevitably regain the lost weight.

Reduced Weight Loss

Also, when you force yourself continuously to be on a reduced calorie diet, your body recognizes this lapse in the number of calories and tries to counter it. Your body alarms go off, and the condition is read as one that can cause your body to starve. In the effort to balance this low-calorie intake, your body tries to stop excessive loss of stored fats because it is required for body functions. However, continuous crash dieting does, in fact, lead to loss of stored fats, followed by the breakdown of muscle tissues, to compensate for energy required for body functions.

Short-Term Risks

The crash diet causes acute dehydration since it is primarily the body’s water weight that you lose. It is only after the water weight is lost that stored fats and muscle tissue degeneration takes place. Dehydration causes fainting due to exertion and exercising. As long as you keep your body hydrated, your metabolism is in check you can have a healthy and glowing skin, naturally. It also causes nutritional deficiency since there is hardly any mineral or vitamin included in the diet. Lack of necessary nutrients causes your body to become dysfunctional. Crash dieting can also cause cardiac arrhythmia, or in other words, irregular pulse rate as well as loss of bone tissues and muscle cramps.

Psychological Complications

A very low-calorie diet like a crash diet is always going to make you feel hungry. The hunger is because of the less food you eat. Such a diet is difficult to follow for prolonged periods. In some cases, the hunger pangs are so strong that you can fall into a binging cycle. A crash diet can also cause psychological disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia is a state where you starve yourself over a period, while bulimia is found to be the condition of forcing yourself to vomit your meals. Crash dieting can also cause social exclusion if other people in your circle are on a normal, healthy diet.

Increases Risk of Heart Disease

The sudden low-calorie diet, followed by the inability to replenish lost fats required for energy forces your heart to go on an overdrive. This condition makes the heart exert more pressure. The excessive strain can cause you to have a heart attack in the long term. It can also cause other heart diseases since the diet reduces potassium, sodium and copper count in the body. A low-calorie diet like a crash diet also causes you to feel light-headed as well as fainting. Giddiness, dizziness or fainting can cause you to fall and hurt yourself. It also breaks down your immune system, and causes blood vessel damage from the muscle breakdown.

While it is necessary to lose extra weight, crash dieting is not the answer. It will undoubtedly give fast results in terms of losing weight, but it has more harmful long-term health risks involved. The best way to lose weight is to begin a balanced diet that is inclusive of adequate amount of proteins, carbohydrates, fatty acids, minerals, and vitamins. It is also equally important to exercise to achieve better results.

Author Bio : Vineetha Reddy

Being a regular practitioner and adviser of everything related to nutrition, fitness, health and wellness, I also have begun to write and contribute to this knowledge ecosystem. I strongly believe that the organic food you find in your pantry provide the best benefits for good health. Follow me for my best ideas and solutions :Twitter

Related posts:

  1. How to Lose Weight the Healthy Way
  2. 4 Low Carb Yogurt Options
  3. 10 Hilarious Signs You’re a Keto Dieter
  4. Lacto Fermented Salsa: Fresh Garden Salsa Recipes
Tagscrash dietingLong Term Consequences Of Crash Dietingnutrition

You Might Also Like...

  • 7 Natural Remedies to Minimize Symptoms of Seasonal Allergies
    FeaturedHealth and Fitness

    7 Natural Remedies to Minimize Symptoms of Seasonal Allergies

  • New Moon Manifestation Ceremony - Manifest Your Biggest Dreams
    FeaturedSpirituality

    New Moon Manifestation Ceremony – Manifest Your Biggest Dreams

  • 6 Self-Care Mistakes To Avoid
    FeaturedHealth and FitnessMental Health

    6 Self-Care Mistakes To Avoid

  • How to Practice Gratitude in 2022
    FeaturedHealth and FitnessMental Health

    How to Practice Gratitude in 2022

About Nerdy Millennial

This blog all about millennials sharing their passion, ideas, and expertise about blogging, healthy living, self-improvement, education, parenting, and more!

Interested in contributing? Contact us to pitch your idea or submit an article.

Featured Posts

FeaturedHealth and FitnessHomesteading

The 5 Benefits Of Fishing From A Kayak

Any excuse to get outdoors is a valid way to live a healthy lifestyle as it will give you fresh air, a great mental break from everyday stresses, and it ...
  • Treating PCOS-Related Infertility With Weight Loss Surgery

    Treating PCOS-Related Infertility With Weight Loss Surgery

    By Dr. Laura July
    April 15, 2022
  • DIY Wall String Art for Beginners

    DIY Wall String Art for Beginners

    By Ian Walsh
    April 8, 2022
  • How to Practice Gratitude in 2022

    How to Practice Gratitude in 2022

    By Dr. Krishna Bhatta
    April 8, 2022
  • 10 Ways Women Can Advance the Gender Equality Movement — Today

    By Contributing Author
    April 7, 2022
  • Are Cheat Meals or Cheat Days Allowed on Keto?

    Are Cheat Meals or Cheat Days Allowed on Keto?

    By Ian Walsh
    April 2, 2022
  • Why You Should Thoroughly Embrace Your Geeky Interests

    Why You Should Thoroughly Embrace Your Geeky Interests

    By Contributing Author
    March 9, 2022
  • Soaked Grain Recipes

    24 Super Simple Soaked Grain Recipes

    By Vanessa Pruitt, PLMHP, MS
    January 31, 2022
  • Mini French Bread Pizza Recipe

    By Vanessa Pruitt, PLMHP, MS
    January 31, 2022
  • 10 best fitness tracking websites to help you stay in shape

    10 Best Fitness Tracking Websites to Help You Stay in Shape

    By Vanessa Pruitt, PLMHP, MS
    January 31, 2022

Join Us on Facebook

Search

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Write For Us
  • Comment Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}