Experts from nyulangone & UCSDHealth talk about why it's easier to regain weight than it is to lose it.
, explained that our bodies are biologically evolved to defend against weight loss, not weight gain."When your metabolism is slowed down and your hormones are telling your brain to eat more, it is much easier to wind up with a calorie surplus than it is to have a calorie deficit during weight loss. In other words, it takes a lot of effort to fight our biology, but not too much effort to help it do what it wants to do, regain the lost weight.
than you started with. It's not completely clear why that is, he said, but"it may be that your appetite and weight regulation centers in the brain are hyper-stimulated until your fat mass or lean body mass returns to baseline. When that happens, you've already gained a lot of fat mass back." Plus, as he mentioned before, it's easy to eat in a calorie surplus after weight loss because your metabolism has already slowed down.
Dr. Grunvald said that people who've lost weight and kept it off for a long time find success in increasing their physical activity — this is based on data collected from the
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