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[quote=Anonymous][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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PP who called you rude here.  You could have phrased the question better.  It happened because PP didn't actually keep the same diet as before, which she shouldn't be doing anyways.  If you are cutting 500 calories to lose weight, [b]then you need to add 500 calories back to maintain[/b].  PP was probably eating 1000 calories instead.  The real reason is that people say "I just lost 20 pounds, one extra cookie won't hurt!  I've earned it!"  But then they do that every day.  [/quote]

This is absolutely not the way to cut calories, and then maintain. The smaller your body, the fewer calories your body needs. So if you cut 500 calories from the get-go, that needs to be your new normal. You do NOT add back those calories (unless you're burning them). Basically you get to a point where you're naturally not losing anymore, because that's your new normal. Because the calories needed to maintain weight at 200lbs is NOT the same number of calories you need to maintain at 150lbs. Also points to the value of NOT making drastic changes, and losing weight very slowly.

But back to pp, so then you and I agree? It's understandable if they find it very hard to maintain, but they weren't honest in their response, either. 
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You continue to confuse physics with biology. They are not the same thing. There are no rules of physics in the burning of calories and accumulation of weight. [/quote]

Yes, the numbers means nothing. If you wolf down 10,000 calories of food intake a day it doesn’t matter. [/quote]

Exactly. And when people are locked up with only minimal food and calories, they won’t lose weight. If you eat fewer calories a day, it doesn’t matter either. [/quote]

Amazingly, in the last 50 years, our bodies have changed SO much, that eating less and moving more won't cause humans to lose weight! Even the people who've been obese and successfully lost weight (and kept it off) are magical anomalies of biology or physics or astronomy or whatever. They just have massively high metabolisms or something, because most normal Americans eat only 1000 calories a day and run 5 miles and can't lose a gram! 
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