What’s Best for Keeping Weight Off: Diet or Exercise?

What’s Best for Keeping Weight Off: Diet or Exercise?

"When a person loses weight, their body experiences several metabolic adaptations that attempt to get their body back to their starting weight, said study coauthor Danielle Ostendorf, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Colorado University Anschutz Health and Wellness Center. You burn fewer calories at a lower body weight than a heavier weight. So you either have the reduce your calorie intake or increase your calorie burn (through physical activity)—or a combination of the two—to keep the weight off...“Based on our study’s findings, it appears as if the successful weight loss maintainers are relying more on energy expenditure through physical activity rather than a reduction in their caloric intake,” she told Runner’s World."