4 January 2018
The Consequences of Dieting
Before you go on a diet, think about what the consequences will be:
- Your body will be able to run on fewer calories. Eating the same foods after a diet will leave you with more calories left over to store as fat.
- Neurological changes will make you more likely to notice food than before dieting.
- It will become harder to stop thinking about food once you notice it.
- Food will taste better.
- Food will give you a bigger rush of dopamine.
- Your levels of the hormone leptin go down and it will take more food to make you feel full.
- Afterwards, you will be hungrier than before you started. Your regular non-diet lunch won’t make you full any more.
- Dieting disrupts executive function, the process that helps with self-control. After dieting you will have less willpower when you need more.