If you feel like your body is working against you to lose weight or keep it off, you aren't crazy! Our modern-day environment plus the human body's energy balance regulatory system create the perfect storm for obesity.
First of all human physiology is biased toward maintaining energy balance at high levels of calorie intake AND expenditure so any efforts to battle the bulge needs to include an increase in physical activity and small behavioral changes to trick the body (smaller changes produce less compensation by the energy balance regulatory system.) I write a lot about this in the new edition of my book, TELL ME WHAT TO EAT IF I HAVE DIABETES. The importance of physical activity seems to be even more essential for people with a particular gene variation that makes weight loss nearly impossible without aerobic exercise.
I've also known that certain diet plans work better for some than others in terms of encouraging weight loss and that genetics likely has a major role in this.
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