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The point is that the body adapts to burn more or fewer calories depending on how much you eat. Restricting calories can possibly have the side effect of just l
by trophycase 7y ago
The point is that the body adapts to burn more or fewer calories depending on how much you eat. Restricting calories can possibly have the side effect of just lowering your metabolism, rather than just losing weight.
- RandallBrown 7y agoYeah, that's true, but it doesn't change the calories in calories out equation. If your metabolism goes down, so do the calories out. That's one of many reasons that counting the calories out is extremely difficult.
- UnFleshedOne 7y agoThat's also one of the reasons this equation is not very useful in practice.
- LameRubberDucky 7y agoRestricting your calories and causing lower metabolism only works for so long. Otherwise a person would not be able to starve to death, which is obviously not the case.
- AstralStorm 7y agoWhy are you bringing extreme cases when they're not relevant? Reduced metabolism when dieting is a thing, and it's also correlated to weight loss. Less weight, less base metabolic rate. Down to a point which is irrelevant.