Fig. 1: Changes in body weight (W), body fat (FAT) and fat-free mass (FFM) in response to semistarvation (SS) and subsequent refeeding (RF); time 0, 1 and 2 represent ‘prior to semistarvation’, at the ‘end of the semistarvation’ period, and at the end of the refeeding period when body weight has been completely recovered, respectively. | International Journal of Obesity

Fig. 1: Changes in body weight (W), body fat (FAT) and fat-free mass (FFM) in response to semistarvation (SS) and subsequent refeeding (RF); time 0, 1 and 2 represent ‘prior to semistarvation’, at the ‘end of the semistarvation’ period, and at the end of the refeeding period when body weight has been completely recovered, respectively.

From: How dieting might make some fatter: modeling weight cycling toward obesity from a perspective of body composition autoregulation

Fig. 1

The dynamics of body composition recovery are depicted with FAT and FFM recoveries being desynchronized and resulting in fat overshooting (upper panel) or synchronized so as to reach 100% recoveries at the same time without fat overshooting (lower panel). All values are expressed as a difference from the corresponding values during the control (time 0) period. More precisely, the values are defined as \(FAT_{{\mathrm{time}}} - FAT_0\) for FAT (red circle, dotted line), \(FFM_{{\mathrm{time}}} - FFM_0\) for FFM (blue triangle, dashed line) and \(W_{{\mathrm{time}}} - W_0\) for W (black square, solid line).

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