What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast as always. I am your host Mike Milner and today's episode. I'm going to review a recent study, recent as in December of

2023, so very recent, that highlights something that is incredibly important when it comes to behavior

change and maintaining results after losing weight.

Which by the way is the biggest challenge that we face as a whole. If you're looking

at weight loss statistics,

losing weight is actually very simple. It is so simple

that for every seven people that attempt to lose weight. Six of them will be successful.

So pretty easy for the most part. The challenge is sustaining those results and that is where we fall massively short as a whole.

Depending on the research, anywhere from 95 to 98% of those people who lose the weight will gain it back.

And once again, depending on the research, anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of those people

will gain it back plus interest.

We do not have a weight loss issue.

We have a weight maintenance issue after losing it.

And there's a lot of reasons for that.

I mean, it's very layered,

it's very nuanced.

At the end of the day, I think if we were to zoom out

and just look at the basic like surface level reason as to why that's the case,

it's because most of the time the methods of losing weight are unsustainable. Meaning when somebody attempts to lose weight

and they are successful they are doing it in a way that they can't do forever.

So way too restrictive, way too many food rules, way too many, you know,

just it's eliminating food groups groups it's restricting the amount of time that you can eat it's you know having these lists it's following a meal plan. It's all the stuff that you can't see yourself doing forever. So if we had to come up with a surface level reason that is a blanket statement,

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