> Resting metabolic rates decrease in obese people, and stay lowered even if they lose weight It very much depends on how you lost weight. You can be losing w

> Resting metabolic rates decrease in obese people, and stay lowered even if they lose weight It very much depends on how you lost weight. You can be losing weight while maintaining high BMR. They key is to maintain high activity level and be able to eat to satiety regularly. If you just cut calories consumed the body will try to defend from perceived starvation by cutting on activity and metabolic rate. You become sluggish, you feel cold even on a hot day, etc. But you can also cut average calories consumed in relation to caloric requirements by moving a lot and practicing intermittent fasting where you eat to satiety from time to time (once a day, once every other day, etc.) > (...) and it really is no wonder why it's so hard to lose weight once you have it and more than 90% of attempts persistently fail. This is why I do not like armchair "pills don't solve everything" (...) I had two attempts at losing weight. I lost over 70 pounds both times. After the first time I regained it all within couple of years. For the second time I decided to rethink entire process and treat it as an engineering problem. My results is that, to lose weight permanently, one has to learn new habits and essentially become a person that person that deserves lower body weight. Which is what I did, I learned to eat better (cut all sugar, soft drinks and most carbs), stop snacking, restrict feeding hours, add activity every day throughout the day (running every morning, taking walks in the evening, sprinkling the day with small activities like buying groceries rather than driving to a mall once a week, etc.) It works.