Losing weight is difficult. Here's why keeping it off is even tougher.

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Losing weight is hard enough when you're already overweight or obese. But once you finally arrive at your goal weight, keeping that weight off can be even more difficult: Only about 20% of people who lose weight end up maintaining that new, lower weight, research shows.

There are several reasons keeping weight off is difficult. Two significant causes: Your body's hormones like to keep you heavy, and your body typically defaults to conserving energy, according to recent research published in the American Journal of Physiology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism.

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For the study, scientists put 34 patients who were morbidly obese on a two-year weight-loss program. At the end of the study period, all participants had lost weight (an average of 24lbs), but they were all also much hungrier on average than at the beginning. Researchers attributed the increased appetite to higher levels of the hunger hormone ghrelin. As people lose weight, the body produces more ghrelin; even when...

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