Many people regain weight after stopping GLP-1 medicines. Long-term support may be as important as the drugs themselves.
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Your body adjusts your food intake and activity to maintain a balanced weight and avoid starvation. Researchers have proposed several theories explaining how this works.
Exercise has many health benefits beyond weight loss.
Some people weigh themselves daily, while others have ditched scales altogether. So what does the evidence say?
Some researchers assert that the body responds to exercise by burning fewer calories when you’re not working out. Regardless of its effects on weight loss, exercise provides many health benefits.
New research shows so-called ‘restrained eaters’ prefer larger portions of lighter foods.
Weight loss often leads to declines in our resting metabolic rate – how many calories we burn at rest – which makes it hard to keep the weight off. So why does weight loss make resting metabolism go down?
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