Our bodies loves it when things are stable. In fact, most systems in the body are designed to keep things automatically stable without us even being conscious about it. This is called Homeostasis.

Think about it: your body temperature, your blood pressure, your blood sugar.. are you controlling all these right now? Certainly not consciously but your body is working every second to ensure all these are kept within a very small range. Even things we do not think about like the acidity of your blood, the amount of salt in your serum.. everything is kept in balance. We do not control it and honestly we have very little control over it.

What about weight? For some reason, we have always believed that we are the masters of our own weight. We get to control it with our lifestyles. Unfortunately this is only partially true. Our body is designed to defend a particular weight and this is called the Weight Set Point.

Ever noticed how no matter what you do your body, over time, tends to drift back to a certain weight?