What that means is that if you crash diet and then eat at the exessive rate again your body won't be able to handle it. Eating at the excesive rate is already a

What that means is that if you crash diet and then eat at the exessive rate again your body won't be able to handle it. Eating at the excesive rate is already a risk for cardiovascular health. What the user here said is that "crash diets fuck you up for years" which is not true. There is a refeeding stage that is necessary after weight loss is completed. And even then one should never return to overeating. To give an extreme parallel, when heroin adicts recover, if they go back they will die much faster becasue their dosage needed for a hit is almost as high it was at the peak but their liver is not strong enough because it shrunk durring their recovery as it wasn't abused as much.