Bad mood and the yo-yo effect: Stay away from these 3 diets

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Between Christmas and New Year’s, the days of the week become less important and the calories evaporate. We float in a kind of bubble in which we are allowed to do anything: endlessly feast, binge-watch Netflix, or take a mid-day nap. What about our self-discipline? It’s still stuck somewhere in the old year and won’t return until Epiphany at the earliest – but then it’s in full force: terms like detox, detoxification and diet are flying around your ears on all sides. The guilt returned, and with it the (unfortunately real) extra pounds from the holiday.

Should you let this stress you out? NO! The body comes back into balance and diets wear out your nerves. American psychologist Sari Chait also confirms: “Hard diets have a negative impact on mental health.” So don’t even think about following the following three silly nutrition guidelines floating around the internet right now.

This diet involves completely eliminating certain foods from your diet for 30 days, called “bad” foods, such as sugar, alcohol, grains, legumes, soy, and dairy. If you leave these out, the weight should fall and your metabolism should speed up. If you break the ban and eat a small piece of chocolate with your coffee (for example, on the 19th day), you will have to start all over again… Yes, we roll our eyes too. Of course, too much sugar has no purpose other than health, we all know that. But this 30-day restriction will likely bring more stress and frayed nerves than a sense of accomplishment.

Yes, it is not without reason that this reminds us of the diets we already know. The Pegan diet is a mix of “Paleo” and “Vegan” and means you avoid processed foods, dairy, alcohol, sugar, and grains, and consume only meats from sustainably raised and grass-fed animals. Fish and eggs are also allowed, but here too the focus is on high-quality production. The pegan diet doesn’t sound bad in principle, but demonizing certain foods encourages an unhealthy relationship with food and results in internal conflict because you’re constantly torn between desire and forbiddenness.

In German, this is called “part-time fasting” and essentially means not eating anything for several hours. Specific time periods are set during which you can eat whatever you want. Hard to believe, right? Sugar, pasta, meat, milk; everything is allowed. But after that it ends for about 16 hours. The hype around this diet is still high, but experts are skeptical. Fasting often causes you to consume even more afterwards: We are naturally wired to consume more after a restriction because the body expects to have to overcome another period of drought.

Source : Blick