A health and nutrition company called Tanita has come up with some interesting statistics regarding weight loss and dieting for women in the UK. They say that their research can show that over the course of the average woman’s life she will put on and then shed a whopping 25 and a half stone!

This sort of weight loss pattern that is called Yo Yo dieting is a familiar thing to millions of women in the UK and is considered by doctors and health professional as being very unhealthy in the long term. It often means that these women are eating unhealthily when they gain weight and even when they shed weight and is very demoralizing also as they feel they are constantly worried about their weight.

The researchers estimate also that for every 10 stone that women shed over their lifetimes they also put back on around 15 and a half stone meaning they tend end up overweight at the end.

Almost two thousand women were surveyed for the research and thee experts believe that the “body-image culture” is largely to blame for this growing weight problem in the UK. The majority of these women resort to crash diets to shed the extra pounds that they gain and this is not healthy.

Of the women surveyed almost 80% admitted that they were concerned about waistline measurements and one in 5 said that they were always thinking about the problem. Other statistics that the research produced were that 65% of women reckon that they are overweight, a small number at 16% said that they are content with the way that they look and 90% said that they weight themselves on a regular basis.

The researchers also concluded that the problem was also caused when women seek to lose weight without have an exercise program to complement it and this causes muscle to be shed instead of the all important fat loss.

At Ukmedix we always advise that exercise should be included in weight loss plans as it can boost metabolism and burn calories as well as tone muscle.