He said he made "the maximum effort to lose weight for four years, but the weight came back".
That restores your weight and as your weight comes back up your brain starts to work normally again.
"I found the weight came back very quickly once I went off the drugs," Ms. Lauterback said.
And if the weight comes back on, they don't say that the diet wasn't successful — they say 'I blew it.' But that's not correct.
But eventually I just had to have a piece of bread, a slice of pizza, a muffin, and the weight came back.
"You can initially lose 5 to 10 percent of your weight onany number of diets, but then the weight comes back," said Traci Mann, UCLAassociate professor of psychology and lead author of the study.
It took the encouragement of his friends, William Mutwol and Tanui, to start him running again and, on the paths and roads around his home, he got back into shape, his weight coming back down to within 5kg of his racing weight.
When I left wrestling behind, my eating habits stayed with me, and my extra weight came back.
And when the weight comes back -- whether from pregnancy or just because -- I'll still love fitness.
The problem is that the weight comes back" for around 95% of people, said Mann, founder of the Health and Eating Lab at the University of Minnesota, where she is a professor of social and health psychology.
That's because gaining weight stretches out the skin, and it doesn't necessarily snap back into place when the weight comes back off.
