Inspirational comedy movie "SlimMing Men and Women" 45 days weight loss success? The meat lost from dieting grows back through the body's self-regulation

In April 2002, at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony, one film won five nominations, including Best Movie, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Original Film Song, and finally won the Original Film Song Award. This movie is the comedy movie "Slim Men and Women" starring Andy Lau and Zheng Xiuwen.

Stills from the comedy film Slim Men and Women

The movie "Slim Men and Women" tells an inspirational weight loss story. Mini Mo, played by Zheng Xiuwen, was originally a nine-headed beauty, and the so-called nine-headed beauty is a head-to-body ratio of one to nine, which is naturally a well-proportioned lady. Others are "gaunt for the sake of The Elimination" after the loss of love, and Mini Mo has a different reaction after being stimulated by the loss of love, which may be the endocrine system or digestive and absorption function is stimulated, making her a fat man weighing 260 pounds. From a lady to an obese woman, a sense of inferiority suddenly emerged.

At this time, Mini had the opportunity to know the fat guy played by Andy Lau, and the same disease naturally became a confidant. In the middle of the friendship, he learns that Mini and his first love Kurokawa made a ten-year pact ten years ago, and they will see each other again after ten years. With only 45 days left before the ten-year contract, Mini, who has now become obese, certainly does not want to meet her first love, because she is afraid that Kurokawa will see what she is now. The kind fat guy, in order to complete the lover, is determined to help Mini regain her original body shape. Specially train him to lose weight in a hellish way, step on a bicycle, pull an oil drum, and eat anything bitter and tired. Kung Fu pays off, and in these forty days, Fat Guy and Mini have lost weight successfully. On the day of the ten-year covenant, Mini and Kurokawa met as scheduled, and things were developing towards the happy ending of Kurokawa and Mini, but in a casual TV interview, Mini saw the video of Fat Boy beating her up in order to help her pay for the money needed to lose weight, and she left Kurokawa to find Fat Boy. A few years later, she became a famous writer, published her own slimming experience, and re-encountered the fat boy behind the thin body, and the lover eventually became a family.

The movie "Slim Men and Women" is an inspirational comedy. In reality, is there a rapid weight loss effect through dieting and other means? American scientists have found their secrets by studying reality TV shows. They followed contestants in Super Weight Loss For six years, and what happened to people over the next six years after achieving significant weight loss through high-intensity diet control and exercise, the first follow-up study to address the issue.

The results are staggering. The results showed that the body's resistance to weight loss was very strong. Metabolism experts say: This is related to resting metabolism, that is, the calories that a person consumes in a quiescent state. At the beginning of the show, although the contestants are severely overweight, their metabolic levels are normal for their bodies, that is, the calories they burn when they are stationary are normal for people of their weight. By the end of the show, their metabolism slowed dramatically, and their bodies didn't expend enough calories to maintain their leaner body shape.

Researchers have known that anyone who deliberately loses weight — even if they would otherwise be normal or underweight — has a slower metabolism at the end of the diet. So, they weren't surprised that the contestants for "Super Slimming King" had their metabolism slowed down at the end of the show.

To the researchers' surprise, what happened afterwards was that over time, weight gained, and the participants' metabolic levels did not recover, or even became slower, so the weight continued to gain. It was as if their bodies were trying to get them back to their original weight.

In one extreme case, for example, the contestant gained more than 100 pounds and his metabolism became so slow that in order to maintain his current weight of 295 pounds, he had to consume 800 fewer calories per day than the average person of that weight. Eat more than one bite of long meat.

The difficulties these contestants experience help explain why obesity in the United States is so difficult to make progress. More than one-third of U.S. adults have obesity problems. Billions of dollars are spent on diet pills and weight loss programs, but even the most aggressive dieters are fighting their own biological mechanisms. Their experience shows that the body will rebel for many years. Dr. Michael Schwartz, an obesity and diabetes researcher and professor of medicine at the University of Washington, said the point was "new and important."

"The point is, you can be on TV, you can lose a lot of weight, you can stick around for six years, but you can't get rid of the basic biological facts," Schwartz said. He was not involved in the study. "As long as it's below your original weight, your body will try to get you back."

The results of the study will be published Monday in the journal Obesity. It is part of scientific research to answer some of the most basic obesity questions. Researchers are trying to figure out why obesity causes so many people to develop diabetes or other health problems, and they're also looking for new ways to block harmful substances in fat. They began to reveal why obesity surgery can cause most people to lose a lot of weight while dieting often fails. They are also revisiting medical care for overweight people.

They hope that this work will eventually allow us to find new treatments, treat obesity as a chronic disease, and control weight for life.

Most people who have tried to lose weight know how hard it is to maintain their weight after loss, but many people blame themselves when they gain weight again. But obesity studies have repeatedly shown that dieters are at the mercy of their own bodies, and by regulating hormones and metabolic rates, they regain their original weight, whether it's a few hundred pounds, or the 10 or 15 pounds that many people try to avoid growing back.

Everyone has a weight that they can maintain without having to work hard. While it's not known why that number has changed over time — perhaps as a result of age — at any point in time, there is always an easy weight to maintain, and that is the weight that the body strives to defend. Finding ways to counter this mechanism is what scientists strive for. First, though, they try to get more details.

Through the above experiments, scientists say that the "most successful" dieters have any hope for these people if their metabolic levels do not return to normal? However, experts also say, "This should not be understood as if we are destined to fight our own biological mechanisms, or we can only continue to be obese." Instead, it should be understood that we need to explore other approaches. ”

Experts say all this doesn't mean moderate weight loss is hopeless. Each person's response to dietary controls (such as a low-carb or low-calorie diet) and various interventions such as exercise and weight loss medications is different.

Therefore, simply reducing caloric intake is not the answer to the problem. There is no doubt that some exceptions are able to ignore basic biological signals and maintain weight loss over the long term by controlling caloric intake, but for most people, endless hunger and a constantly slowing metabolism combined to lead to a re-weight gain, which explains why few people can maintain weight loss for more than a few months.

Therefore, just like in the movie "Slim Men and Women", the male protagonist played by Andy Lau comforts the heroine played by Zheng Xiuwen, people do not need to blame themselves for weight gain, it is all metabolism and self-regulation of the body. (Zihua)