When I say I have tried every diet under the sun, I mean I have tried a ton of diets. The Cabbage Soup Diet, Mean Green Juice cleanse, Atkins, Weight Watcher, and the list go on and on. You name it, I have tried it. I remember being able to eat whatever I wanted without gaining a pound. I ate pizza, soda, ice cream, chips, and all the good junk food with had no changed in weight. However, things changed about ten years ago, and I started to pack on the weight. Since then my weight has gone up and down like an elevator. I have lost as much as fifty pounds only to gain it back, and then working toward to shedding the pounds once again. This struggle of unsuccessfully maintaining the weight loss long-term has led me to realize; I am a perpetual yo-yo dieter. …show more content…
Kelly D. Browenell, a scientist, professor, and obesity expert at Duke University, coined the phrase “yo-yo dieting,” in reference to the cyclical loss and gain of weight, thus resembling the up-down motion of a yo-yo