After going through multiple yo-yo weight loss cycles most people wonder what are they doing wrong. Is there a sure way to reduce weight long term? Most weight loss systems focus on short-term to give immediate results. Now you will hear for the first time what makes the weight loss stick long term:
1. Only short term weight loss controlled by calories: We have all been ingrained with the logic of “diet and exercise” that we take it for granted. But nobody told us that the ‘diet and exercise’ mantra works only in the short term. Scientists have found with experiments on rats that when they surgically remove or add fat, the rats regain the former weight in a few months. This indicates that we have a “set weight” that our system converges to. All the dieting we do cannot change our weight long term unless the “set weight” is changed. This is why in the long run we return to our set weight. We have been focusing on the wrong thing. Instead of focusing on our set weight, we have been focusing on Calories.
2. Long term weight loss controlled by “set weight”: Our set weight is like an inner thermostat that regulates our weight. Just like the thermostat regulates the temperature within a house. If we reduce calories intake it correspondingly reduces our metabolism so that we revert to our set weight. If we burn more calories then it increases our hunger. If we force ourselves to both burn more calories and eat less, our weight will go down in the short term. But the more it diverges from our set weight, the more pressure we feel. Eventually the set weight wins and we find ourselves where we started. But there is no need to feel discouraged. The set weight can be changed, and when we do that our weight automatically adjusts. Just like when we change the thermostat settings, the temperature of the home adjusts accordingly. The trick is to focus on the set weight and next three bullets show us how.
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