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Study of Biggest Losers finds that the body wants and will fight to be Fat
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:17 am
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:17 am
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The results, the researchers said, were stunning. They showed just how hard the body fights back against weight loss.
“It is frightening and amazing,” said Dr. Hall, an expert on metabolism at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. “I am just blown away.”
It has to do with resting metabolism, which determines how many calories a person burns when at rest. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes.
Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. So they were not surprised to see that “The Biggest Loser” contestants had slow metabolisms when the show ended.
What shocked the researchers was what happened next: As the years went by and the numbers on the scale climbed, the contestants’ metabolisms did not recover. They became even slower, and the pounds kept piling on. It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight.
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Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:19 am to Kujo
Keto is the only way to go
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:20 am to Kujo
So its not their fault after all
This post was edited on 5/3/16 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:20 am to Kujo
And I thought they were just big-boned
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:21 am to Kujo
So just diet harder.
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:22 am to Kujo
All the more reason why cardio PLUS weight training are so important to losing and maintaining weight loss. I am shocked by the biggest loser contestants metabolism so being slower at the end of the contest because these folks are hitting the weights pretty hard. It's just always been common knowledge that weight training increases the body's metabolism at rest because of the repair that takes place to the muscle tissue.
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:23 am to Kujo
Such bullshite! Change what you eat not how much idiots.
Amazing that a drug company is involved in the research. Just trying to figure out a away to sell the sheep more drugs that they done need.
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Dr. Margaret Jackson, who is directing a project at Pfizer. Her group is testing a drug that, in animals at least, acts like leptin, a hormone that controls hunger.
Amazing that a drug company is involved in the research. Just trying to figure out a away to sell the sheep more drugs that they done need.
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:25 am to Kujo
it is almost as if years of being really unhealthy effects your body negatively.
I am curious to what his diet and exercise looked like
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Mr. Cahill was one of the worst off. As he regained more than 100 pounds, his metabolism slowed so much that, just to maintain his current weight of 295 pounds, he now has to eat 800 calories a day less than a typical man his size. Anything more turns to fat.
I am curious to what his diet and exercise looked like
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 10:26 am
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:27 am to Kujo
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Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. So they were not surprised to see that “The Biggest Loser” contestants had slow metabolisms when the show ended.
Give them speed with their gym memberships.
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 10:27 am
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:28 am to Mottleduk
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It's just always been common knowledge that weight training increases the body's metabolism
maybe that common knowledge is based only on the Gastrointestinal commonality in 66%(majority) of people? So it's assumed it's 100% applicable.
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:29 am to Mottleduk
it does but these guys are overtraining to the T and this is coming from somebody that thinks in 99% of cases overtraining is BS.
And their metabolism is slowing because they are crash dieting trying to win the show. A slow and steady approach with proper refeeds to reset hormones would prevent this.
and of course a crash diet with up to 6 hours of exercise a day isn't healthy.
The biggest loser is a crock of shite that focuses solely on weight loss, not a healthy life style, not on education and certainly not on how to lose fat and build muscle.
As far as the study goes....shite in=shite out
****Correction this study was performed by a respected institute, not by a drug company as indicated*****
And their metabolism is slowing because they are crash dieting trying to win the show. A slow and steady approach with proper refeeds to reset hormones would prevent this.
and of course a crash diet with up to 6 hours of exercise a day isn't healthy.
The biggest loser is a crock of shite that focuses solely on weight loss, not a healthy life style, not on education and certainly not on how to lose fat and build muscle.
As far as the study goes....shite in=shite out
****Correction this study was performed by a respected institute, not by a drug company as indicated*****
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:32 am to BRgetthenet
Steve Gellar
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:33 am to Kujo
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Soon the scale hit 265. Mr. Cahill started weighing and measuring his food again and stepped up his exercise. He got back down to 235 to 240 pounds. But his weight edged up again, to 275, then 295.
His slow metabolism is part of the problem, and so are his food cravings. He opens a bag of chips, thinking he will have just a few. “I’d eat five bites. Then I’d black out and eat the whole bag of chips and say, ‘What did I do?’”
This seems less about biology and more about bad habits.
The problem with these diets is that they go on binge diets and workout in order to drop 150 lbs then go back to their regular lifestyle. It is more effective to slowly loss weight over time doing something that you want to keep up.
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 10:36 am
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:35 am to lsu777
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of course a crash diet with up to 6 hours of exercise a day isn't healthy.
The biggest loser is a crock of shite that focuses solely on weight loss, not a healthy life style, not on education and certainly not on how to lose fat and build muscle.
As far as the study goes....shite in=shite out
As you are probably aware, 99.999% of dieters aren't training 6 hours day, and eating <800 calories....but have a similar story of weight not coming or staying off.
But that's because they are stupid lazy pos's amIright?
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:36 am to Kujo
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But that's because they are stupid lazy pos's amIright?
Yes for 99.999% of dieters
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“All my friends were drinking beer and not gaining massive amounts of weight,” Mr. Cahill said. “The moment I started drinking beer, there goes another 20 pounds. I said, ‘This is not right. Something is wrong with my body.’”
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 10:42 am
Posted on 5/2/16 at 10:44 am to WhoDat37
love the catch 22
dieting too much, dieting too little
amazing how all the skinny people in the world seem to have this exact,seemingly unobtainably perfect, "just right" amount of diet, and all these fatties can't get it right.
dieting too much, dieting too little
amazing how all the skinny people in the world seem to have this exact,seemingly unobtainably perfect, "just right" amount of diet, and all these fatties can't get it right.
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