Sometimes you can’t win for losing. One study found that those who eat less often are more likely to be overweight. Researchers found that:
“on average, the normal weight subjects ate three meals and a little over two snacks each day, whereas the overweight group averaged three meals and just over one snack a day”.
Overweight people who have lost significant amounts of weight tend to gain it back and gain it back quickly. These people experience a slowing metabolism and hormonal changes that increase their appetites. Perhaps if you can just persist and keep the weight off over the longer term, say a year, you’d be more likely to keep it off.
According to another study that unfortunately that does not appear to be the case. The discouraging result after a year of maintaining 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.
Another quote:
The results show, once again, Dr. Leibel said, that losing weight “is not a neutral event,” and that it is no accident that more than 90 percent of people who lose a lot of weight gain it back. “You are putting your body into a circumstance it will resist,” he said. “You are, in a sense, more metabolically normal when you are at a higher body weight."
Instead of enduring the restrictions of a diet only to gain it back, start an eating plan you know you can stick to. Add a little bit of HIT strength training that burtns calories at a very high rate and live an active healthy life style. This is something that is doable for most people.
HIT is the type of fitness training we do at Austin Personal Training and New Orleans Fitness Training.