The Fat Trap

This NY Times article entitled "The Fat Trap" discusses some intriguing research that finds obese individuals who lose weight eventually gain all their weight back, no matter how determined they are to keep the weight off or whether they maintain their efforts to do so. The research indicates that hormones in the body that are related to hunger and metabolism fundamentally change in these individuals. It may change the way the entire nation thinks about weight loss. How does this impact your thinking about diet and exercise's role in weight loss? What other factors might be involved in the weight loss process?