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You may have started bouncing back because studies show that your BMR will drop by as much as 17% below the baseline expectation for someone of your weight afte
by arcticbull 3y ago
You may have started bouncing back because studies show that your BMR will drop by as much as 17% below the baseline expectation for someone of your weight after like 6 months if you're doing caloric restriction dieting. Your 500kcal/day deficit may be zero or negative once you factor that in. Consider reducing your intake to 500kcal/day below 80% of the expected BMR for someone of your weight and see if you return to your original trajectory.
It's called adaptive thermogenesis. See Figure 1 and Table 1 in [1].
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036397/
- ajuc 3y agoMy bouncing back is entirely explained by caloric intake ;) I've had "cheat months". I simplified it, I was bouncing up and down several times, I started at 130 kg, went to 100 kg pretty quickly, dipped to 90 kg twice (both times on backpacking trips BTW), and now I'm oscillating between 100 and 105 roughly. My goal is 85-90 and I'll get there eventually.
- arcticbull 3y agoIt might be, but it might not entirely be. That's the thing, there's more to this. The reality is weight loss should be a long-term thing, and you should be sustaining it years later without issue if popular narrative is to be believed. I'm not really even commenting on individual cases, just sharing what I've dug up because based on what's going on around us, it's clear the approach we're taking is completely failing us - and we're really just not that alarmed about it. Any time I've tried to dig up studies that support the commonly prescribed approach I've failed. Good luck!!