Why is it so easy to gain back the weight I've lost?

There are many reasons why weight lost are so easily gained back, but we can safely generalise them under one principle, which is the loss of METABOLISM. Allow me to illustrate that by listing the reasons one by one:

1. When you lose weight, your body naturally doesn't metabolise as fast since you don't need so much energy anymore for basic movements, so, your metabolism slows down, resulting in an increased demand to reduce your calories intake or to increase your metabolism.

2. People who engage in dieting (cutting down on more calories than recommended) tend to fall into the natural body process known as 'starvation response', where the body starts conserving energy in order to allow the body to last long enough without food intake in the next few hours/days. This is done by decreasing metabolism.

3. People who engage in dieting (cutting down on more calories than recommended) without appropriate amount of exercise will find themselves losing their muscles, which are the key component in our body which drives metabolism. Thus, a loss of muscles will result in a decrease of metabolism.

Once the metabolism drops drastically, all the initial loss of weight will be regained with every extra calorie consumed. Therefore, it is important that we know how to lose weight correctly, if not, all the loss will be regained eventually, wasting all your initial efforts.