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Maintaining Weight Loss Gets a Helluva Lot Easier After this Point in Time


For the study, researchers asked 20 healthy, obese participants to drink weight-loss shakes for two months (a.k.a. our nightmare). After losing an average of 13 percent of their body weight, the individuals entered a yearlong maintenance program, consisting of meetings with a dietitian and food tracking. 

So just how long will it take? Researchers from the University of Copenhagen found that keeping the weight off for a total of 365 days makes it easier for you to maintain that weight loss and maybe even shed more pounds.


Prior to the weight-loss program, researchers recorded participants’ levels of two appetite-suppressing hormones and the hunger hormone ghrelin. After maintaining their weight loss for a full year, researchers found that the subjects' levels of those appetite-squelching hormones increased, and their ghrelin levels dropped. 

Both of those changes are awesome for weight maintenance and could even lead to more weight loss, said one of the study authors in a press release. 

It’s important to keep in mind that this study was only conducted with obese individuals. So it's hard to say whether these results would apply to someone looking to drop just 10 or 20 pounds.

Until someone bottles those hanger fighting hormones (come on, science; it’s 2016), your best bet is to stick to a sustainable diet and exercise program, eat mindfully, and hold yourself accountable. Eventually, your body will let it go.

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