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Also, when obese dieters lost weight, their metabolism slowed, conserving calories and driving their weight back to the setpoint.
Experts believe that once you've put on extra weight for six months to a year, the setpoint resets, as it does after pregnancy.
The big breakthrough in understanding obesity came in 1994, when experiments on lab mice revealed that the hormone leptin controls the setpoint by controlling satiety.
To permanently lower the setpoint, you must keep weight off for about three years, perhaps longer.
When your weight falls, leptin decreases, hunger increases, and you eat more--until you return to your weight setpoint.