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People who have been fat and then lost weight have a different metabolism than people who stayed at the same lower weight throughout. Most people who lose a sig
by glenra 12y ago
People who have been fat and then lost weight have a different metabolism than people who stayed at the same lower weight throughout. Most people who lose a significant amount of weight gain it all back and then some within three years. Your theory that losing slower would be more sustainable than losing faster is interesting, but do you have any actual evidence for it? If calories in/calories out were all there was to it, shouldn't it take no willpower to merely stay at the lower weight once achieved, regardless of how quickly that loss were achieved?
As for me, I think the real issue is that we still really have no idea why people have collectively gotten fatter and thus have no advice to give that consistently works to completely reverse that process. What we have are guesses as to what might work. And most of these guesses are wrong.
- sheepmullet 12y ago"Your theory that losing slower would be more sustainable than losing faster is interesting, but do you have any actual evidence for it?" I think losing weight quickly for a short period of time (4-6 weeks) works very well (e.g. V-Diet). I also think losing weight slowly over the long term (max 1 pound per month) also works well. I think most people try somewhere in the middle of the two extremes and it just doesn't work. Trying to lose weight quickly for an extended period just doesn't work for all but the most motivated people. For evidence in support of losing weight slowly and almost effortlessly take a look at the book Mindless Eating. It covers a lot of interesting research.