How To Keep The Weight Off For Good

Have you gotten to the point where you've lost some weight, you feel good about yourself but now you just don't know how to keep it off?

Well, this happens to a lot of people. They know that calorie deficit is the way to go but somehow our body seems to not let us stop eating past a certain point.

The reason for this is something called the body fat set point. The official term is actually “adiposity set point” and it’s a place where the body stabilizes at a certain weight and tries to balance things out whenever the body goes below that weight point.

For men, body fat goes between 7% and 18%. For women, that number goes somewhere between 11% and 26%.

With time the body weight set point goes up. It stays pretty low in our 20's and 30's but as it grows with age it becomes pretty hard to keep the weight off.

But it is possible to lower this set point if you are positioned on a higher level on this scale.

The key to all this is a hormone called Leptin which was discovered back in 1994. It triggers a starvation response when you lose weight as with lower weight come lower leptin levels.

This is all explained very well in an article by Rusty Moore which you can find here.