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For years, studies of obesity have found that soon after fat people lost weight, their metabolism slowed and they experienced hormonal changes that increased their appetites. Scientists hypothesized that these biological changes could explain why most obese dieters quickly gained back much of what they had so painfully lost.
But now a group of Australian researchers have taken those investigations a step further to see if the changes persist over a longer time frame. They recruited healthy people who were either overweight or obese and put them on a highly restricted diet that led them to lose at least 10 percent of their body weight. They then kept them on a diet to maintain that weight loss. A year later, the researchers found that the participants’ metabolism and hormone levels had not returned to the levels before the study started.
The study, being published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine, is small and far from perfect, but confirms their convictions about why it is so hard to lose weight and keep it off, say obesity researchers who were not involved the study.
” – New study: body’s resistance to food restriction is long term. | Big Fat Blog (via jerseyjezebel)
Monday:
- Cross-trained on the stationary bike for 30 minutes in the AM
- Additional 30 minutes on the stationary bike in the PM
- Some light ab and core exercises
Tuesday:
- 35minutes elliptical in the AM
- Worked a bit on back and shoulders in the PM
- 10 minutes on the elliptical, gave up, moved…
Nutrition
Breakfast
12 oz. Eight O’Clock Hazelnut Coffee with 1 Packet Sweetener and 1 tbsp. French Vanilla Creamer
6 oz. Chobani 2% Pineapple Greek Yogurt with 1/4 Cup Bear Naked Banana Nut Granola and 1/6 Cup Dried Cranberries
1 Opti-Women Vitamin
Calories: 462
Post-Workout Snack
1…
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