{"id":3511,"date":"2016-10-28T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2011-10-28T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T21:15:59","slug":"tough-to-diet-l1028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/weight-loss\/tough-to-diet-l1028\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieting and Hormones: Why it\u2019s so Hard to Lose Weight and Keep it Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Diet fads come and go.\u00a0 A hot new exercise<\/a> claims it can lead to rapid weight loss.\u00a0 Skinny people do advertisements for all sorts of programs that promise to turn you into a super model.\u00a0 Weight loss pills<\/a> offer hope to some.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all seen this, but if dieting were that easy, we wouldn\u2019t have an obesity epidemic on our hands.<\/p>\n

We all know dieting is tough<\/a>, and some say it\u2019s even tougher to keep the weight off, and now a new study backs up that claim.<\/p>\n

Hormones are working against you<\/strong>
\nA group of Australian researchers recruited a small group of people, with an average weight of about 200 pounds.\u00a0 Each participant was placed on a strict 550-calorie diet for 10 weeks and dropped about 30 pounds.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is showing something I believe in deeply \u2014 it is very hard to lose weight.\u201d And the reason, Dr. Stephen Bloom, an obesity researcher at Hammersmith Hospital in London said, is that \u201cyour hormones work against you.\u201d<\/p>\n

A year later<\/strong>
\nThe study participants were placed on a strict diet even after losing the initial weight and many of them regained the weight despite the diet.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cA year after the subjects had lost the weight, the researchers repeated their measurements. The subjects were gaining the weight back despite the maintenance diet \u2014 on average, gaining back half of what they had lost \u2014 and the hormone levels offered a possible explanation,\u201d Bloom said.<\/p>\n

The future<\/strong>
\nDoctors say they simply need more knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0 If hormone levels are working against overweight patients, scientists might start to look into a way to reverse it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diet fads come and go.\u00a0 A hot new exercise claims it can lead to rapid weight loss.\u00a0 Skinny people do advertisements for all sorts of programs that promise to turn you into a super model.\u00a0 Weight loss pills offer hope to some.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all seen this, but if dieting were that easy, we wouldn\u2019t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-loss"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t