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You're conflating two different ideas. The idea that metabolic rate can't change for an individual (which it obviously can as it's based on that persons body ma
by leshow 11y ago
You're conflating two different ideas. The idea that metabolic rate can't change for an individual (which it obviously can as it's based on that persons body mass, lean mass, age, etc [all of which can change] along with genetics) with the concept that there is a magical starvation mode wherein further reductions in calories won't produce any loss in weight (which is obviously false as people starve to death worldwide all the time).
- mistermann 11y agoActually we are talking about a plateau despite maintaining an apparent deficit from an orally consumed calories perspective. Why does this plateau happen? Please don't be disingenuous and claim I am implying magic and that you can live without food, you know that isn't true.
- leshow 11y ago> Why does this plateau happen? If you're asking why weight loss slows down in a diet the answer should be pretty obvious. You continue to lower calories to keep yourself in a deficit, at a certain point your calories become very low and people have trouble with compliance. Either that or the body enters a special high efficiency mode where it becomes a super efficient energy conservation machine all of a sudden? The simplest solution is probably the correct one.