Buy Walking VideosYou’ll Gain It Back
Keith left a comment on this old entry.
Keith said,
“Bottom line is that they will not possibly be able to keep the weight off, if your losing 10+ pounds in a week then you will put it on then some after a few months.”
Sorry, Keith, but you’re wrong. Do you know how I know you’re wrong? A lot of the people in the original Biggest Loser, who also lost 10 pounds a week, have not gained the weight back. They have made permanent changes to their lives.
The “You’ll Gain It Back” argument has been thrown at me so many times by so many people that I don’t even listen to it anymore. It’s the excuse that people say when they are jealous of your weight loss. It’s the “friendly” warning that they give you when they think you’re losing too fast. It’s the admonition they say when you are thinner than they think you should be.
Don’t listen to them.
Worse still, the “You’ll Gain It Back” argument is something that I say to myself when I’m not feeling like following the program. I say, “What’s the point? It’s impossible to maintain at this weight. I’ll just end up fat like I was before.” Sometimes it’s harder to disregard these words because they are hiding within myself.
Don’t believe the “You’ll Gain It Back” argument. It’s not true. If you eat healthy and exercise, you will maintain the loss.
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August 19th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Laura,
You’re right on. Whether or not you make the lifestyle change (eating, exercising) is completely the issue, not how fast the weight came off.
August 19th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
When it comes to weight loss, a lot of people seem to take the approach of it either works, or it doesn’t, and that’s all there is to it. But the reality is that it could work for some, but not for others.
Just because some people may go back to their old ways after reaching their goal weight, doesn’t mean everyone will. To paint a broad stroke and say “You will gain it back” is just plain being uninformed.
Those same people would be the ones in line to kill the heretics who claimed the earth was round…
August 19th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
The key is you MUST make a lifestyle change. I have and I’m glad of it. Eating is a poor means of personal fulfilment.
August 20th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
Most people who lose fast do gain it back. They were doing a crash diet and not a lifestyle change. I lose a little faster than most but not biggest loser fast but faster than WW wants. This time I made it a lifestle change but I know if I don’t keep what I am doing I will go right back to binging.
August 20th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
A lot of people hope others fail. I want people to do well. At the same time some people can only lose .2 to 1 pound a week these people’s loss are still need to be clapped
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:45 am
According to Dr Rudy Leibel, noted obesity researcher, when a person is trying to keep a weight lower than their body wants, their bodies start producing a bunch of hormones to force them to re-gain. One of these is cortisol. Another forces a regain regardless of what they eat. Others make them feel fatigued if they do not eat and gain. He has identified FOUR hormones involved but he stated there might be as many as 40 hormones involved. This (what he called) “powerful biochemical system” which kicks into place after a person has lost weight on a diet, is why 95 percent of people regain the weight lost within 4 years. The real kicker? He found that people maintaining a weight BELOW where their bodies want to be, burned 10 percent LESS calories per pound during exercise! He also said that although there is an advantage to being in the so called “normal BMI” ranges, it has not been proven that people who have to calorie restrict to STAY in those ranges ENJOY that advantage – on the contrary, it may be healthier for them to follow what their bodies want. Best thing to do is change one’s lifestyle to better food choices and DAILY cardio exercise of 60 minutes or more and don’t worry about weight. Studies show that fat people who exercise are under the same risk of heart disease etc as slim people who exercise. Fat AND slim couch potatoes are also under the same risk as each other – about 40 percent greater than ANYONE who exercises (Cooper Institute studies of 20,000 men and 9500 women over a 30 year period)