Is Covid fattening?
Maintenance of weight loss
A recent British study shows that the empty supermarket shelves at the start of the CoVid-19 epidemic were less the result of panic buying by a few egoists than the consequence of a moderate increase in provisioning by a very large number of people. It seems we all looked ahead and sensibly decided to stock […]
Junkfood add weight
Maintenance of weight loss
What do we call foods composed mostly of sugar and saturated fats, with no real nutrients to speak of? Ultra Processed Foods (UPF) is an attempt at neutral naming, but Junkfood is actually a very fair description of these worthless or even harmful foodstuffs, with their potentially heavy impact on cardiovascular health. But this post […]
Ever slimming, never slim?
Maintenance of weight loss
We all know someone who has lost weight, maybe a lot of weight, and who is succeeding in keeping it down – though maybe we don’t yet know who that person is. It may take a chance conversation or a random find on social media to discover what he or she looked like “before”. Saying […]
Yo-yo dieting: not so bad?
Maintenance of weight loss
You know about “yo-yo dieting”? The weight lost in dieting is regained afterwards, sometimes with a bit extra. Scientists call it “weight cycling”, many overweight people call it a nightmare. People who have done several weight-loss diets (serial dieters) have on average a higher weight than people who have dieted only once, or never. By […]
Does one use up less energy after losing weight?
Maintenance of weight loss
One question I often get asked is “Can weight regain after a diet be explained by a lowered metabolic rate?” The short answer is: “No, not systematically”. In other words: “Usually not, though it can happen in some rare cases”. And yet, how often we’ve heard it repeated: “after you lose weight, your body goes […]