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

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