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Lessons from the Biggest Loser…Holding on to the Lean Body Mass is Critical to Reduce the Suppressio

During the TV show the Biggest Loser the 14 participants lost a ridiculous amount of weight (average weight loss 128 pounds) over a 30 week period, which is approximately 4 pounds per week. When we convert this into calories this would be 14,000 calories per week. To be clear every participant did not lose 4 pounds per week, this was the average weight loss among all of the participants. However when eliminating this many calories in a short period of time the body detects th

Why Do We Gain Back the Weight We Worked so Hard to Lose? Lessons from the Biggest Loser

You may have seen the headlines about 14 of the “Biggest Loser” contestants who were followed for 6 years and how they gained their weight back…well actually one did not gain back their weight. However, five contestants gained all their weight back to within 1 percent of their previous weight and the rest gained back 70 percent of the weight they lost. I thought that this would be a good time to cover the “set-point” theory related to our body weight. We all carry genes that

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