Why Your Body Fights After Weight Loss with Rudy Leibel
About this episode
This episode discusses the biological challenges of maintaining weight loss with Dr. Rudy Leibel, a leading obesity researcher.
You hit your goal weight. Then, hunger crept back in, your energy dropped, and the scale rose. Sound familiar? You're not broken, your body is built for this. In this episode, Holly and Jim sit down with Dr. Rudy Leibel, one of the most influential obesity researchers in history, a Columbia University scientist whose team cloned the leptin gene and fundamentally changed the world's understanding of obesity. What was once dismissed as a willpower problem, Dr. Leibel helped prove is a deeply biological one. And his groundbreaking work laid the foundation for the very GLP-1 medications making headlines today. If you've ever felt like your body is working against you, this episode will explain how your body’s biology impacts weight, share practical strategies for managing it, and offer real reasons for optimism about what's coming next. Discussed on the episode: The evolutionary reason your body panics the moment you start losing weight Why the biological drive to regain never truly lets up, and what successful "maintainers" are actually doing differently The surprising reason metabolic adaptation may not predict who regains weight What "threshold" vs. "set point" means for your…
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