Losing weight slowly equals keeping it off?

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I've lost 10lbs, but I'd like to lose at least another 10. The weight has come off really, really slowly, a bit less than one pound per week. I'm disappointed with my weight loss overall.

People keep telling me that losing it slowly means I'll keep it off.

Is there any scientific basis behind this? Or is it just that losing weight slowly means more of a lifestyle change than a crash diet?

I read that it doesn't really make any difference. The regain rate is still about 95% however you lose it.

I lost 2 stones over a year. So slow weight loss. I have kept it off for the last two years. Lost it by cutting portion size a bit, and more exercise. Wasn't a hassle to lose it, not a hassle to keep it off. When I lost weight on a diet, on a quicker basis, it always felt temporary. This weight loss feels permanent. Keep at it. Pick up a bag of sugar in a supermarket. Calculate how many of them you have lost and it is actually a substantial amount. Well done.

I think the important bit is the maintenance. I lost 21lbs at the end of last year in 3 months. I am more proud of maintaining it for 7months than I am of the loss.

I suppose slow weight loss means a longer practicing good habits but perhaps more people give up because it is so slow so swings and roundabouts.

I think it comes down to a slower weight loss should hopefully be about learning new habits.

Typically quick and large weight loss occurs when you follow a diet where you completely change how you eat. The problem is most of those diets are not sustainable forever as they don't fit into real life. If you think about it restricting times to eat, removing food groups or living on shakes/packets or expensive foods is fine for a few months or even a couple of years but forever is a different ballgame.

Whereas slow weight loss over a long period of time is often associated with making small but sustained changes that fit in with all life throws at you. There is no big change but equally that hopefully means no reverting back to how you used to eat which caused the weight gain in the first place.

For example I am going out to an Indian restaurant tonight and have eaten out several times in the last month. My weight loss is slow and perhaps I won't have any this month but what won't happen is the usual thing of putting weight back on because I have not 'fallen off any wagon' as I have made small bit signigicant changes which are now a habit.

I agree with the others it's more to do with having formed new habits that stick. Of course you have to be mindful of maintenance though and not let weight creep back up.
Losing slowly also helps with things like avoiding loose skin and some health problems associated with rapid weight loss such as gall stones.

It's totally a habit thing. If you take weight off quickly or slowly and then go back to the old eating habits that put the weight there in the first place, it will come back.

But this is all anecdotal and not supported by studies that have been completed. Most find that slow losers and fast losers regain at the same rate.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.fitnesspudding.com/entry/4-nutrition/121-does-the-speed-of-dieting-affect-weight-regain%3fformat=amp

"In conclusion, weight loss maintenance is elusive for many. There are several known factors that do contribute, but there are still mysteries to be uncovered. For now, however, the current research does not support that fast-dieting, or slow-dieting for that matter, have an effect on preventing weight re-gain. "

Oysterbabe I think that comes down from the 'diet' mentality that it's something you do to lose weight so once you have done that people revert back into the old ways. Having read why diets don't work I agree that most people fall into a diet trap and will put the weight back on or even more than they started with whether it's slow or fast weight loss.

That's why I think it's about making new habits rather than 'dieting'.