We often hear that the majority of people who lose weight cannot maintain their weight : even in some articles we hear alarming percentages, for example it is stated that as many as nine out of ten people regain the weight lost (over the years) after having done a Slimming diet. According to this article , 64% of people who go on a serious and personalized weight loss diet regain the weight they lost within three years, but the percentages of those who re-gain weight rise to 95% if they go on a fast and drastic diet.

But a group of researchers wondered if there are other characteristics that lead those who lose weight to regain weight or to maintain it. And it seems that an important distinction is the number of kilos to lose: those who lose many kilos tend more easily to maintain a healthy weight.
Specifically, researchers from the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk found the following:
– 20% of people who lose up to 15% or more of their body weight manage to maintain their new weight; about half of these continue to lose weight.
– but only 14% of people who lose 10% of their weight manage to keep the new weight; and of these, only 4% continue to lose weight.
What does it mean? That if you have to lose fifteen or twenty kilos, first of all think about going to a specialist, and secondly, you will have at least a one in five chance, keeping your new habits, to stay in shape, and you will have more chances if it is the first time you put on. seriously on a diet. On the other hand, cyclicals, or those who enter and leave diets, are more at risk.