Diet fads come and go. A hot new exercise claims it can lead to rapid weight loss. Skinny people do advertisements for all sorts of programs that promise to turn you into a super model. Weight loss pills offer hope to some. We’ve all seen this, but if dieting were that easy, we wouldn’t have an obesity epidemic on our hands.
We all know dieting is tough, and some say it’s even tougher to keep the weight off, and now a new study backs up that claim.
Hormones are working against you
A group of Australian researchers recruited a small group of people, with an average weight of about 200 pounds. Each participant was placed on a strict 550-calorie diet for 10 weeks and dropped about 30 pounds. The group was monitored for a year after their initial weight loss and the results showed their hormone levels changed after they dropped the 30 pounds and then, surprisingly, stayed that way.
“It is showing something I believe in deeply — it is very hard to lose weight.” And the reason, Dr. Stephen Bloom, an obesity researcher at Hammersmith Hospital in London said, is that “your hormones work against you.”
A year later
The study participants were placed on a strict diet even after losing the initial weight and many of them regained the weight despite the diet.
“A year after the subjects had lost the weight, the researchers repeated their measurements. The subjects were gaining the weight back despite the maintenance diet — on average, gaining back half of what they had lost — and the hormone levels offered a possible explanation,” Bloom said.
The future
Doctors say they simply need more knowledge. If hormone levels are working against overweight patients, scientists might start to look into a way to reverse it.
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