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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by trophycase on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:38PM (#20965043)
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.
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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by LameRubberDucky on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:56PM (#20965201)
Restricting 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.
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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by AstralStorm on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:59AM (#20969169)
Why 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.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by RandallBrown on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:44PM (#20965091)
Yeah, 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.

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Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving by UnFleshedOne on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:25PM (#20966132)
That's also one of the reasons this equation is not very useful in practice.
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