Why You Regain Weight After Every Diet

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[00:00:00]The LA Times says diet and exercise don't work for weight loss. What the article misses is the conversation around weight regain and the battle that individuals have to maintain weight maintenance after initial weight loss.

[00:00:14]This piece treats lifestyle like a historical artifact. What we've seen over and over again inside of our industry is people can lose weight on lifestyle interventions, training, nutrition, supplementation, but they often regain it without ongoing support.

[00:00:28]So, we need more of an emphasis on what happens after the diet. We're even seeing this same issue now when people use things like GLP-1s or weight loss medication, but then regain weight when they come off. So, this conversation needs to be equally as much about the weight loss period as sustaining the weight loss after a period of time. This section was also an afterthought, which I think needs to be highlighted. They should intervene more quickly to encourage weight loss in overweight patients before they become obese, noting that an ounce of prevention is often worth a pound of cure.

[00:00:58]Diet and medications help people lose a lot of weight. Exercise and lifestyle help to cement the weight loss and sustain those changes long-term.