Anytime I start losing weight, I get really discouraged that even if I lose it, I won't be able to keep it off. Obviously this has come up a lot with some people gaining back a lot of lost weight during quarantine (there's a lot of factors at play there). People who do successfully keep their weight off mention being hungry all of the time, even when eating whole foods at maintenance.
Additionally there's all kinds of research backing up these people's experiences. Once you lose weight, your body burns less energy than someone who has the same body composition but was never overweight. Your hunger hormones shoot through the roof and your body fights to return to its initial weight.
While I understand that these struggle are particularly apparent when people follow unsustainable crash dieting, it seems like people who focus on whole foods, exercise, and calorie deficits also experience this.
I understand that whole foods and exercise will just always be a part of maintenance, and I'm okay with that-- I don't want to go back to eating and drinking poorly, but I'm worried that I'm going to lose the weight and find I can't keep it off even if I'm doing the right things. And that's kind of discouraging. Obviously it's not impossible, but I don't want to "be hungry all the time" as people say they experience. What's the deal? have you experienced this? Will building muscle mass help sustain a higher metabolism? What does one do?
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