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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10- lost 20 lbs 4 years ago through sensible diet changes and exercise and even while still exercising and watching my diet I gained it all back and then some. [/quote]

How does this happen?

Your diet and exercise remained exactly the same leading you to lose and subsequently gain???
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No need to be rude, the real diet is maintaining weight loss.  [/quote]

What is rude about my question? I'm honestly confused. How do you implement dietary and exercise changes, lose 20lbs, continue those same dietary changes, and then gain 20+ lbs back? I don't understand.
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You don’t understand because you confuse the field of biology for the field of physics. (DP)[/quote]

Ok, so then please explain it to me like I'm 5.

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When you put a gallon of gas in your car, it will never learn to be more efficient or burn it in any other way than the way mechanical engineers understand it to burn applying the laws of physics.

That is not how cells or metabolisms work. They do adapt, become more or less efficient over time, respond to body composition, and deploy hormones to constantly change how things are being burned or absorbed. [/quote]

Well yes of course. But then something must have changed dramatically in pp's life. A person carrying the momentum to lose weight via diet/exercise is not going to suddenly gain, if they're maintaining the same speed limit/regimen.  Perhaps pp started a new medication or incurred a debilitating medical condition, or maybe had an injury and is overstating their continuation of diet/exercise, but her weight gain is from other intervening factors. And those reasons may be valid in putting "maintaining" at a level 10, but I think she's not sharing full information.

--middle aged woman
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You say you know but then you say it can’t be possible. Mind you PP didn’t say it was “sudden,” those are your words. But your body adapting to be more efficient on the same regime, and then returning to a previous set point weight? That’s not an exception to the rule. That’s the rule, i.e. what happens the majority of time when someone loses weight. [/quote]

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