>Caloric deficits don't work well for long term weight loss because the body has a tendency to move towards homeostasis. Can you cite this? I've lost a lot of

>Caloric deficits don't work well for long term weight loss because the body has a tendency to move towards homeostasis. Can you cite this? I've lost a lot of weight and kept all of it off by really really drastically cutting my caloric intake. This is something that I've never gotten: if your body could do the same work as it does with 3000 calories but only use 500, why wouldn't it do that all the time?