Everything today is rush, rush, rush. Believe me, I’m as guilty as the next guy. With a bustling career, a wife who works full-time outside the home and four children, I need to whisk my kids off to school, answer my emails STAT, jump into my packed work day, and somehow squeeze in time for my meals.

But speed may be the opposite of what you need when it comes to eating and losing weight. Some new research has found that slowing down the rate at which you eat may actually help you get into those skinny jeans more quickly.

Because the response to my blog post on fast versus slow weight loss was so strong, I decided to review a recent study about the long-term results of crash dieting.

More specifically, the study investigated what happens to appetite hormones after 10 weeks of dieting… one year later.

The Crash Diet Study

This year-long study involved 50 people with Body Mass Indexes (BMI) of between 27 and 40 (this is considered overweight or obese), who went on an extreme low-calorie diet for 10 weeks.

What’s an extreme low calorie diet?