A ton of research has been done investigating why some people lose weight while others don’t, why some people succeed at keeping weight off once they’ve lost it while others don’t, and what factors tend to influence your ability to successfully maintain a healthy body weight.
What it boils down to is your metabolism.

Very simply, thinner people have a higher metabolism than heavier people. The reason…thin people have more fat-free mass OR lean muscle than their heavier counterparts. Since muscle burns roughly 50x times calories than fat it would make sense that having more lean muscle would be a predictor of long-term success in weight management.
Take Home Message #1:
Resistance training builds lean muscle and is therefore ESSENTIAL to boosting your metabolism and thus helping you lose weight and keeping it off for good.
Take Home Message #2 - Best Predictors for Keeping Weight Off…
A very interesting study out of the journal Obesity Research found that the best predictors for weight maintenance after weight loss were the following:
0 an increase in dietary restraint during weight loss,
0 a high baseline resting metabolic rate (as a result of resistance training),
0 a rather stable body weight (ie. no excessive fluctuations in weight gain/loss), and
0 a low […]

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