In the BMI chart, find the point where your height and weight meet and see if it falls in the healthy weight area. B.M.I. should be used for men and women only. It is not appropriate for children, teens, pregnant and breastfeeding women, adults over 65 years or very muscular people. Dieting Recent studies have shown that low-calorie diets depress the body's metabolism making the body super efficient. Weight is regained quickly when you are not dieting.
Weight loss is usually muscle and fat while weight regained is nearly always fat.
Researchers are now finding that yo-yo dieting may be just as dangerous to the dieter's health as remaining overweight. People who yo-yo diet have a higher death rate and may be at greater risk of obesity, heart disease and some cancers. Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are triggered in some dieters. Ironically, most of us have nothing to be dissatisfied about, healthwise. It was the unrealistic goal, not our efforts in trying to reach it that failed.