The Real Reason It's So Hard to Lose Weight

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You probably know that losing weight is really hard. But it may not be just because of your cheat day frequency; your body actually fights back to make losing weight harder. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC2926239&blobtype=pdf https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199503093321001#t=article https://www.physiology.org/doi/pdf/10.1152/ajpregu.00755.2010 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039924/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199503093321001#t=article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4236233/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.20967 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.12255 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.21538 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6694559 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cec8/8cc388fe9546927b2ccc95d8f20ecfe4d7a5.pdf Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cheesy-pepperoni-pizza-gm938738190-256696209?clarity=false https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illu_connective_tissues_1.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin#/media/File:Leptin.png https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/the-endocrine-system-gm494807628-77658661 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/woman-with-barefoot-standing-on-the-scales-new-start-for-healthy-nutrition-body-gm935271434-255940888 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-before-and-after-weight-loss-fat-and-slim-body-gm912895148-251307045 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sculpting-her-body-gm891441272-246866363 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/trying-to-lose-weight-gm502046318-81677719
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