Tue, Apr-23-24, 08:16
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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Here's when your Weight Loss Will Plateau.
….According to Science.
Interesting new study by Kevin Hall. Everything you wanted to know about the dreaded stall. 
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/heal...-study-wellness
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Whether you’re shedding pounds with the help of effective new medicines, slimming down after weight loss surgery or cutting calories and adding exercise, there will come a day when the numbers on the scale stop going down, and you hit the dreaded weight loss plateau.
In a recent study, Kevin Hall, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health who specializes in measuring metabolism and weight change, looked at when weight loss typically stops depending on the method people were using to drop pounds. He broke down the plateau into mathematical models using data from high-quality clinical trials of different ways to lose weight to understand why people stop losing when they do. The study published Monday in the journal Obesity.
What he found is that part of the reason that gastric bypass surgery and new weight loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound are so effective is because they double the time it takes to hit a plateau. People are able to lose weight for longer than by cutting calories alone. The body regulates weight by trying to maintain an equilibrium between the calories we eat and the calories we burn. When we expend or cut calories, and start burning our stored energy, appetite kicks in to tell us to eat more. Hall’s studies have shown that the more weight a person loses, the stronger appetite becomes until it counteracts, and sometimes completely undoes, all the hard work they’ve done to lose in the first place.
This feedback mechanism was valuable for our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but it doesn’t work so well for modern humans who have easy access to energy dense ultra-processed foods.
Article Continues comparing when plateaus happen on different program….
Conclusion:
Whatever route you choose, “a persistent effect is required to maintain the weight loss,” Hall said. So it’s a good idea to consider whether you can keep doing what you’re doing for the long haul.
People who hit a plateau after cutting calories can likely bust through it by restricting calories even further or adding exercise to their routine.
“The whole point here is that whatever you do, you have to keep doing it. And so you’ve gotta be happy with that lifestyle intervention for the rest of your life. Otherwise, it’s not going to have the added benefit,” Hall said.
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See Dr Ted Naiman quote in signature.
Last edited by JEY100 : Tue, Apr-23-24 at 08:27.
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