{"id":527,"date":"2025-11-10T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/activehealthyweightloss.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:01:43","slug":"what-losing-weight-does-to-your-body-and-brain-the-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/activehealthyweightloss.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"What Losing Weight Does To Your Body And Brain | The Human Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_KGEkwSRoF0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to John Gunstad, professor with the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, for speaking with us about his cutting-edge research on how losing weight affects brain function. <\/p>\n<p>Following is the transcript of the video:<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what losing weight does to your body and brain.<\/p>\n<p>During the first week, you may find it easy to lose weight by simply switching to a healthier diet. But as your metabolism adjusts, you won\u2019t burn as many calories as you used to.<\/p>\n<p>So losing additional weight will become harder.<\/p>\n<p>Making matters worse, as the fat melts away, you\u2019ll start to experience an increase in appetite. After a meal, fat cells release a hormone called leptin into the bloodstream.<\/p>\n<p>This surge in leptin levels signals to your brain you\u2019re full and should stop eating. But with less overall fat, people who lose weight show a measurable dip in leptin.<\/p>\n<p>Brain scans of obese patients who had lost 10% of their body weight revealed that less leptin leads to increased activity in regions of the brain that control our desire to eat.<\/p>\n<p>The result isn\u2019t just an increased appetite but an even stronger urge to eat fatty, high-calorie foods, because your brain is trying to restore the body\u2019s leptin levels to normal. <\/p>\n<p>However, fighting that early impulse to gorge on pizza and donuts is worth it in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the decreased risk of heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes, scientists studying overweight people discovered that losing just one pound of body weight reduces four pounds of pressure on knee joints.<\/p>\n<p>Losing excess weight also reduces strain on the blood vessels, increases blood flow to the brain, and boosts overall brain function.<\/p>\n<p>Several studies have shown that people who underwent weight-loss surgery saw an improvement in memory, concentration, and problem-solving skills in as soon as three months.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, brain scans indicate that people who lost weight and kept it off for nine months reacted differently when shown images of high-calorie foods than before they lost the weight.<\/p>\n<p>The brain regions that process reward, motivation, and taste didn\u2019t react as strongly, whereas the areas that promote overall self-control had a boost in activity.<\/p>\n<p>So fighting those cravings early on might make them easier to control later. 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