Rebound Weight Gain in Female

Obese and overweight women who underwent weight loss programs, facing the common side effect, (but not only one) which is losing weight too fast followed by the phenomena of, massive rebound weight Gain in female and it is especially common after periods of yo-yo dieting or extreme calorie deficit.

The reasons for massive rebound weight gain In Female

Because it is unnatural for her body to lose a large chunk of pounds in a short period, consequently it changes her body chemistry leading to a rapid drop in her Leptin levels, which in turn:

1.   Slows down her metabolism.

2.   Slows fat burning even slower than before she started the diet.

3.   Substantially this will lead to frustration because of weight loss plateaus.

4.   More worsen fat piling back with Massive Rebound Weight Gain, when stopping dieting or diet pills.

Rebound weight gain is your body’s attempts to bounce back to your earlier weight, back into its “comfort zone.”

After all, your body doesn’t like change and it wants to make sure it has plenty of caloric resources so, it can maintain homeostasis. Therefore, it fights your attempt to look lean.

So, the dieting lady feel a little hungrier, nibble a little more and fidget less.

Taken over many days or weeks, these seemingly small changes in calorie balance add up to noticeable weight gain.

Estimates show that depending on the type of diet, between 25% and 75% of the weight lost, can be lean body mass (muscle, proteins, fluids, electrolytes).

Once you stop dieting and try to eat normally your body will start to regain the essential tissue creating rebound weight gain. 

How to stop massive rebound weight gain in female?

·       The lady must count your calories/carbs anything!

·       Educate herself on how weight loss works.

·       Track what she eats.

·       Once she has reached her goal don’t stop tracking.

·       She may have been eating 1200 calories to lose weight but as she gradually increases her calories, she wants to keep tracking & weighing herself to know what her maintenance calories are.

·       Once she knows what you can eat for maintenance, keep tracking!

·       This isn’t a never-ending thing.

·       Track for a month or so until she’s used to eating your new maintenance calories.

·       Then every month or so, get tracking again for a week, is she starting to eat too much & gaining weight?

·       By consistently checking in with her eating habits she’ll be able to maintain the weight she has lost.

The role of high-protein diet in preventing rebound weight gain in female:

According to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, participants that ate a high-protein diet and used portion-controlled meal replacements, were less likely to, experience rebound weight gain.

This meta-analysis looked at the results of 20 published studies involving, more than 3,000 participants so, it drew from several sources. And it is especially common after periods of yo-yo dieting or extreme calorie deficit