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You mean the broken link to the study? I'll posit you didn't even click through the link I provided. Pot, meet kettle. Just judging from the article (which lea

You mean the broken link to the study? I'll posit you didn't even click through the link I provided. Pot, meet kettle. Just judging from the article (which leaves a lot to be desired), though, it sounds like a small sample size, with no control group, and hasn't been reproduced. Edit: I'm not saying it's impossible; it's a known issue: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/69/6/1117.full http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/69/6/1117.full There are reasons that most doctors recommend lifestyle changes, slower maintainable weight loss (eg 1lb a week) and resistance training to combat muscle wasting. The Biggest Loser is already picking outliers, then putting them through programs that are definitely not sustainable long term. It's very possible that all this study shows is that losing weight TBL style is very bad for you, not that everyone gains the weight back. I still haven't after nine years.

Jweb_Guru 10y ago
The link isn't broken, and I have absolutely read it. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21538/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21538/full. Please note their methodology. And metabolic adaptation is fairly well established at this point, it doesn't just apply to people who lose tons of weight at a rapid rate.
- anatoly 10y ago
  Hi, can you address this comment on reddit that I found interesting? https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/4hhdsj/the_science_of_fat_after_the_biggest_loser_their/d2re6qs https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/4hhdsj/the_science_... On the face of it it isn't obvious to me why using a least-square model trained on just the baseline of these 16 individuals (the way they predict RMR in the paper) is better than the standard equation, and if the standard equation is a much closer fit to measurement, this seems suspect. But I know next to nothing about metabolic measurements.

Jweb_Guru 10y ago

The link isn't broken, and I have absolutely read it. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21538/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oby.21538/full. Please note their methodology. And metabolic adaptation is fairly well established at this point, it doesn't just apply to people who lose tons of weight at a rapid rate.

anatoly 10y ago
Hi, can you address this comment on reddit that I found interesting? https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/4hhdsj/the_science_of_fat_after_the_biggest_loser_their/d2re6qs https://www.reddit.com/r/Health/comments/4hhdsj/the_science_... On the face of it it isn't obvious to me why using a least-square model trained on just the baseline of these 16 individuals (the way they predict RMR in the paper) is better than the standard equation, and if the standard equation is a much closer fit to measurement, this seems suspect. But I know next to nothing about metabolic measurements.