eli5:Why do people struggle to keep weight off after losing it?

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I love watching weightloss challenges, so I watch people go through these crazy transformations but often times after I hear that the participants will gain a significant portion, if not all, of the weight back. Why is that? Is it diet? Biology?

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Keeping weight off is a change in life style. And people dont maintain that lifestyle change.

1. If you’re overweight and steady at some weight, that means your body is in equilibrium.

2. You make an effort to lose weight. This means you exercise more, eat better stuff, eat less of bad stuff, sleep more, drink more water, whatever. This is a change in your lifestyle.

3. You get to your target weight. So you think, maybe I dont need to eat as healthy or workout as much. So you dont, and eventually your body goes back to equilibrium which might mean you gaining weight again.

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