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The Weight Loss Trap: Why Your Diet Isn't Working 4 What Hall   discovered , however–and what frankly   startled   him–was that even when the   Biggest   Loser contestants   gained   back some of their weight, their   resting   metabolism didn’t speed up   along with it . Instead, in a cruel twist, it   remained   low, burning about   700 fewer   calories per day than it did   before   they started losing weight in the   first place . “When   people see   the slowing   metabolism   numbers,” says Hall, “their eyes bulge like, How is that   even possible ?” The   contestants   lose a massive amount of weight in a   relatively   short period of   time–admittedly   not how most doctors   recommend   you lose weight–but research   shows that   the same slowing   metabolism   Hall observed tends to   happen ...

The Weight Loss Trap: Why Your Diet Isn't Working 3 The   concept   of the calorie as a unit of   energy   had been studied and   shared   in scientific circles   throughout   Europe for some time , but it   wasn’t until World War I   that calorie   counting became de   rigueur   in the U.S. Amid   global   food shortages, the   American   government   needed a   way to   encourage   people to cut back on their   food intake , so it issued its first ever “ scientific diet ” for Americans, which   had calorie   counting at its   core . In the   following   decades, when being   rail-thin   became ever more   desirable , nearly all dieting   advice   stressed meals that were low   calorie . There was the   grapefruit   diet of the 1930s (in   which people   ate half a grapefruit with ...

The Weight Loss Trap: Why Your Diet Isn't Working 2 It’s also   fueled   a rise in research.   Last year   the NIH provided an   estimated   $931 million in   funding   for obesity research,   including Hall’s , and that research is   giving   scientists a new   understanding   of why dieting is so hard, why   keeping   the weight off over time is   even harder   and why the   prevailing   wisdom about weight   loss seems   to work only   sometimes–for   some people. What   scientists   are uncovering   should bring   fresh hope to the 155 million   Americans   who are overweight,   according   to the U.S. Centers for   Disease   Control and   Prevention . Leading researchers   finally agree , for instance, that   exercise , while critical to good   health , is not an especially   reliable...

The Weight Loss Trap: Why Your Diet Isn't Working (This article is divided into 8 parts and you'll receive it in 8 days) Like most   people , Kevin Hall used to think the   reason   people get fat is   simple . “Why   don’t they   just eat less and   exercise more?”   he remembers   thinking . Trained as a physicist, the   calories-in-vs .-calories-burned   equation   for weight loss always   made sense   to him. But then   his own   research–and the   contestants   on a smash reality-TV   show–proved   him wrong. Hall, a   scientist   at the National   Institutes   of Health (NIH), started   watching   The Biggest Loser a   few years   ago on the   recommendation   of a friend. “I   saw these   folks stepping on   scales , and they lost   20 lb . in a week,”   he says .  On the   one ...

5 Weight Loss Tips From People Who Have Actually Done It Most  Americans   want to lose weight, but it’s no   simple feat . Just ask someone who’s   done it . That’s   exactly   what TIME did in a  recent   cover story looking at new weight   loss science . After speaking to   people   who had successfully lost   weight   (after failing many times), it   became   clear that there’s no best way to   go about it . Instead, evidence—both  scientific  and anecdotal—show that it’s   possible   for anyone to reach a   healthy   weight through a strategy that works   best for them . Here’s what   worked   for five people who lost weight   and kept it off . Go slow and   steady “I’ve been   overweight   my entire life. I’d try   different   diets, lose a few pounds and then   gain it back . When I turned 25, I   was 485...