Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel welcome back to the nutrition

TV's quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous you know what The multi-billion dollar weight loss industry has a dirty

little secret. Dieting doesn't work. To be sure, almost any diet out there will produce weight loss if you follow the rules and some of

them will even produce very quick dramatic weight loss. However, the majority of people who lose

weight on diets will eventually gain it all back, often with interest.

Now don't despair, I do have a solution.

And now let's get back to today's show and take a quick look at why diets are doomed to fail.

Much has been made over a recent study which found that dieting, especially the kind of dieting that produces rapid weight loss,

messes with your body chemistry in ways that make it extremely difficult to maintain

that hard-won weight loss. First of all the study found that losing weight triggers changes in hormones that rev up your appetite, and obviously that's not helpful.

Secondly, the study confirmed that sustained calorie restriction lowers your metabolism

so that you burn fewer calories as you go about your daily activities.

This lowered metabolism can continue for a year or even longer after the dieting stops.

Now, before you get too worked up about the metabolism thing,

there's another reality that actually has a much bigger impact on people who have lost a significant amount of weight.

A smaller body requires fewer calories.

That means that if you want to spend the rest of your life in a smaller body than the one you've got right now,

you will need to spend the rest of your life eating less than you do now.

Now, don't shoot the messenger. I didn't say you have to spend the rest of your life hungry.

The other reason that diets almost always fail is that they're temporary solutions

to a permanent challenge. Diet stop working as soon as you stop dieting. Now most dieters start out

strong they've just read the latest celebrity diet book or they've seen the

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