How long should I stay on the diet to not gain weight again
Sport And Fitness / / December 19, 2019
Losing weight is easier than to keep it after the diet. Scientists from the University of Copenhagen found out how much you need to stick to a certain eating plan that hated kgs will not return.
The test involved 20 volunteers, obese. They held a low-calorie diet for eight weeks. After this period, some of the volunteers took part in the 52-week program for weight maintenance, which included meetings with nutritionists and diet tracking.
Researchers measured the participants levels of hormones that affect hunger, including ghrelin, which causes hunger, Glucagon-like peptide-1 and peptide of the YY, which suppress and regulate hunger. After weight loss levels of hormones that regulate appetite, increased by 40%, and after 52 weeks increased by 65%. On the other hand, the ghrelin level causing starvation after weight loss increased by 23%.
Researchers found that the diet makes us feel more hungry. But if the participants were of the diet for 52 weeks after weight loss, hormone levels come back to normal, both in the state before the diet.
If you keep the weight on the new mark of at least 52 weeks, it will be easier to keep it in the long run.
Maintaining a diet in the long run helps the body to adapt and overcome the surge of hunger, which is always a low-calorie diet and rapid weight loss. During this time, you will pass through the critical recovery point and no longer will type weight again.
This small study may become an additional motivation to stick to your diet plan as long as possible. In this case, you do not have to strictly limit yourself to eating a whole year, just pick the right diet for themselves.