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Some people gained weight, some people didn't gain weight.
Expecting some metabolic or DNA factor at work, they were shocked to learn that the only difference between the subjects that they could figure out was the amount they were moving, and that in fact those who gained weight were sitting, on average, two hours more per day than those who didn't.
So we have these studies that tie weight to inactivity, but even more, we now have studies that tie weight to where you live.
This is tiny when expressed in familiar units, because it's equal to something like 10 to the minus 22 grams, but it is large in particle physics units, because it is equal to the weight of an entire molecule of a DNA constituent.
The weight takes a long time to get used to.
And then I went to this website sponsored by the federal government, and I typed in my height, I typed in my weight, and I pushed Enter, and it came back and said "obese."
Well, I finally decided I needed to lose weight, and I knew I could because I'd done it so many times before, so I simply stopped eating as much.
But I had been eating 3,000 calories a day, and I cut it to 2,000 calories a day, and the weight came off.
It weighs only about two kilograms, but it can carry half its weight.
A brain that huge would be crushed by its own weight, and this impossible brain would go in the body of 89 tons.
When there’s too little thyroid hormone, that results in a slowed heart rate, fatigue, and depression, and when there’s too much thyroid hormone, weight loss, sleeplessness, and irritability.
Now each year, more and more ice stacks up on top of it, and eventually it gets so heavy that it starts to slide down the mountain under its own weight, forming a slow-moving river of ice.
The water's 85 degrees, and yet you're losing weight and using calories.
As my New Year's resolution, I gave up dieting, stopped worrying about my weight, and learned to eat mindfully.
But I thought I needed to lose weight, and when I gained it back, of course I blamed myself.
No matter what I tried, the weight I'd lost always came back.
You can use lifestyle choices to move your weight up and down within that range, but it's much, much harder to stay outside of it.
The hypothalamus, the part of the brain that regulates body weight, there are more than a dozen chemical signals in the brain that tell your body to gain weight, more than another dozen that tell your body to lose it, and the system works like a thermostat, responding to signals from the body by adjusting hunger, activity and metabolism, to keep your weight stable as conditions change.
Your brain works exactly the same way, responding to weight loss by using powerful tools to push your body back to what it considers normal.
If you lose a lot of weight, your brain reacts as if you were starving, and whether you started out fat or thin, your brain's response is exactly the same.
We would love to think that your brain could tell whether you need to lose weight or not, but it can't.
If you do lose a lot of weight, you become hungry, and your muscles burn less energy.
Dr. Rudy Leibel of Columbia University has found that people who have lost 10 percent of their body weight burn 250 to 400 calories less because their metabolism is suppressed.
This means that a successful dieter must eat this much less forever than someone of the same weight who has always been thin.
From an evolutionary perspective, your body's resistance to weight loss makes sense.
When food was scarce, our ancestors' survival depended on conserving energy, and regaining the weight when food was available would have protected them against the next shortage.
Even after you've kept the weight off for as long as seven years, your brain keeps trying to make you gain it back.
If that weight loss had been due to a long famine, that would be a sensible response.
Sadly, a temporary weight gain can become permanent.
If you stay at a high weight for too long, probably a matter of years for most of us, your brain may decide that that's the new normal.
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