World No Diet Day 2025: Weight Gain To Anxiety, Dangerous Disadvantages of Dieting

No Diet Day 2025: World No Diet Day is observed annually on 6th May to promote body positivity and challenge diet culture. The day aims to promote healthy relationships with the body and question the societal fixation on counting calories and body weight. 

The day was first held on 5 May 1992 in the United Kingdom. Founded by British feminist Mary Evans Young, the day was inspired by her own struggles with body acceptance and anorexia. 

What started as a little movement by a bunch of women is today a relevant occasion to bring people back in tune with their body, food, and the idea of fitness. 

Dieting as a cultural practice compels people to restrict their food habits and work in strict measures of calories and weight. The unhealthy fixation on controlling weight via food results in many short-term and long-term consequences that can affect not just the body but also the mind.

In this article, we dive into the perilous side of dieting by telling some of its more dangerous disadvantages. 

Disadvantages of Dieting 

Dieting has been endorsed as a way to get back in shape, however, the practice lacks sustainability, hence backfiring more than ever. Keep reading to find out the disadvantages of dieting. 

Physical Disadvantages 

Long-term weight gain: Many diets, especially the crash diets or restrictive diets, eventually lead to long-term weight gain. It happens for several reasons, including your body’s fight to get fed when you resist food to maintain calorie intake.

Increased food craving: The body works on its own motives of neurotransmitters that are triggered to crave more food, especially carbohydrates, when you restrict yourself from eating. 

Muscle loss: Some diets take you completely off protein or carbohydrate,s resulting in muscle loss due to body building and energy storing nutrients. 

Nutrient deficiencies: Restrictive diets lack a balanced diet. It leads to an imbalance of nutrients in your body, with unmet nutritional needs leading to nutrient deficiencies. 

Irregularities Menstrual Cycle: For menstruating people, their diet is one of the biggest contributing factors in having a regular cycle. Restrictive diets can also disrupt menstrual cycles.

Mental or Emotional Disadvantages

Negative body image: Obsessiveness over food, calories, and the weighing scale can lead to an unhealthy relationship between the person with their body, resulting in a negative body image.

Eating disorders: Dieters are reported to be at a higher risk of suffering from an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, and more. 

Anxiety and stress: Dieting can also produce body image and food habit-based anxiety, leading to stress for not meeting the diet goals, leading to issues like low self-esteem and depression. 

Dieting is a sustainable practice that can result in many short and long-term effects on the mind and body. No Diet Day aims to change society's obsession with body types, food restrictions, and weight control. Staying fit and healthy should be the mantra over looking snatched. 

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