Two women who maintained weight loss

These two women remind me of the people in
 NATIONAL WEIGHT CONTROL REGISTRY LINK


Emma Court's article on two women who maintained weight loss link 2016

‘Nobody talks about how, after you lose weight,
it’s 10 times harder to keep it off than to take it off.’
Olivia Ward, winner, Season 11, ‘The Biggest Loser’

" What’s more, their metabolisms were
even slower at their more recent body weight than expected,
to the tune of burning about 500 calories less."

These two women have been able to maintain, more or less,
their television show weight loss of 129 and 120 pounds, respectively.

Compared with the 14 contestants that participated in the study,
this puts them distinctly in the minority.

But doing so has required daily calorie counting and
an hour plus of exercise, six days a week, for the nearly five years since she won the show, Ward said."

“I don’t think the average reader will find it encouraging but ...
it’s definitely encouraging for me to know,” she said.
“I may have to work harder than the average woman. And I know that.”

Still, Ward said, knowledge is power."

"Slowing was greater for people with the greatest amount of weight loss.
But it continued to slow even for people who,
like Ward and Curlee, kept the weight off."

"For Ward, who’s 40 and lives in New York City,
that means what she eats is “maybe not the normal amount of calories
a normal 150-pound woman would eat.”

"Not to mention, she’s a spin instructor, so she works out a lot
— as many as three times in one day."

"Though much of her job involves planning wellness programs for HCA,
Curlee said that, like most people, she still spends most of her day sitting at a desk.

That means going to the gym at lunchtime,
for example, and other kinds of life changes, said Curlee,
who is married to a personal trainer."

"Study takeaways

Even before the study, which was published in the journal Obesity,
scientists knew that metabolism slows after a successful diet.

But when researchers contrasted

the metabolic slowing of the “The Biggest Loser” contestants

with bypass surgery patients, they found a startling difference.

While the TV contestants’ metabolisms continued to slow,

with that rate even increasing in magnitude six years later,

the surgery patients — who did have “significant” metabolic changes
half a year post-operation — “had no detectable metabolic adaptation after 1 year
despite continued weight loss,” the study’s authors wrote."

My comment, I don't think this true. Surgery patients have similar regain issues. They don't lose fat cells

"But in fact, the Obesity study concluded that, despite contestants’ weight regain,
they were “overall quite successful at long-term weight loss
compared with other lifestyle interventions.”

Like Ward and Curlee, the authors concluded that weight loss wasn’t impossible.

Rather, they said,
“long-term weight loss requires vigilant combat against
persistent metabolic adaptation that acts to
proportionally counter ongoing efforts to reduce body weight.”

My comment.
Not clear why the metabolic adaptation is not clearly spelled out.
I believe it is all about the low Leptin
and the fact that the fat cells never die
with those billions of excess fat cells acting like a Sponge
to soak up calories for fat even with 1500 calorie uptake.