What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast. As always, I am

your host Mike Milner and today I want to talk about the common traits that we see amongst the 5% of people,

yes that's right, 5% of people who successfully diet lose weight and keep it off for longer than three years.

These statistics are pretty staggering against the success of diet.

So like 95% of people fail at dieting. When we look at

how many people actually attempt to lose weight in their lifetime it's estimated

that six out of every seven people will make an attempt to diet and

successfully lose weight.

Now of those people, most of them, 95% will gain the weight back within three years and it's estimated that between

one-third to two-thirds of those people will gain it back plus interest.

And there's some current research that suggests

that just being told that you need to lose weight

increases the likelihood that you will gain weight over a longer period of time.

So, we project out and look long-term vision,

just being told that you need to lose weight

is counterproductive to your weight loss efforts.

So that's pretty fascinating. I think it speaks clearly that you know shame and

just like weight bias and weight stigma like does not work like if

we if all it was was just like shaming people into losing weight there is no

shortage of that in our society so that would be successful already

but current research shows that it is actually counterproductive and that's no

surprise now I like to look at the 5% when we look at successful dieters who maintain and sustain those results for basically longer than three years, but there's a lot of things that they have in common

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