What Happens When You Go On and Off Diets

Many people diet a lot with this pattern. When you're dieting, you're really intense, you're eating clean, you're exercising a lot, and then when you're successful or you've given up, you drop the exercise and you're overeating and binge eating all the time. What happens to us when we go back and forth between these extremes with no middle ground? Here's what one study found. It found that people who alternated between low and high calorie diets were more likely to gain weight in the long run than those who just ate a steady high calorie diet. Why? Today, we're going to dive into the nitty-gritty details of why jumping back and forth between diets can be a bad idea.