Biggest Losers Give Us a Lesson on Metabolic Adaptation

If we are reading this study right, it means that some of our estimates of calorie needs could be off by hundreds of calories for patients who have had a past history of “successful” dieting.   A study of “The Biggest Loser” participants showed metabolic adaptation was −499 ± 207 calories per day even 6 years after the competition!

“All but one subject regained some of the weight lost during the competition and five subjects were within 1% of their baseline weight or above.”