This article from 2019 showed up on my FB feed and I thought it was fairly decent in summarizing many of the things we repeat here at r/loseit so it was worth resharing. https://www.npr.org/2019/04/25/717058877/the-biology-of-weight-loss
- Metabolism slows when you lose weight. - You need less food because there is less of you to feed
- If you choose to try to lose weight, make changes that you can live with for the long haul. - It’s a life change not a short term fix
- Hormones in your brain conspire to make you hungrier when you lose weight. - this is the place where biology is really a bitch, but you don’t have to listen to the hormones and eventually they become background noise
- To lose weight, what you eat is more important than how much you exercise. - You can’t outrun a bad diet
- On the other hand, exercise seems to play a big role in maintaining a lower weight. - This is definitely true for me. I’m a lot more active than I was and yet I eat about as many calories as I did at my heaviest most weeks when I am active.
How about you? Discuss.
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