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A study of their struggles helps explain why so many people fail to keep off the weight they lose. 8, 2009, he weighed just 191 pounds, down from 430. It was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight. The project was the first to measure what happened to people over as long as six years after they had lost large amounts of weight with intensive dieting and exercise. Terms of Use Privacy Policy AdChoices Advertise with us About us Newsletters Work for us Help Transcripts License Footage CNN Newsource. com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or earlier. When it ended, their metabolisms had slowed radically and their bodies were not burning enough calories to maintain their thinner sizes. Researchers knew that just about anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they start at a normal weight or even underweight — will have a slower metabolism when the diet ends. Metabolic Rate Now burns 800 fewer calories a day than would be expected for a man his size. As he heard from fans all over the world, his elation knew no bounds. NYTimes. Paper adds to debate Fallopian tubes may have big role in ovarian cancer fight College kid coming home with mumps. Scientists find the first fossilized dinosaur brain - but what took so long.
When he got on the scale for all to see that evening, Dec. Danny Cahill stood, slightly dazed, in a blizzard of confetti as the audience screamed and his family ran on stage. Yet their experiences, while a bitter personal disappointment, have been a gift to science. Contestants lost hundreds of pounds during Season 8, but gained them back. Thirteen of the 14 contestants studied regained weight in the six years after the competition. Mr. Cahill was one of the worst off. As he regained more than 100 pounds, his metabolism slowed so much that, just to maintain his current weight of 295 pounds, he now has to eat 800 calories a day less than a typical man his size. But in the years since, more than 100 pounds have crept back onto his 5-foot-11 frame despite his best efforts. They became even slower, and the pounds kept piling on. When the show began, the contestants, though hugely overweight, had normal metabolisms for their size, meaning they were burning a normal number of calories for people of their weight.
