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Re:How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data... by Locke1689 on Monday November 02, 2009 @03:34PM (#917828)
As long as you're not doing anything drastic and your basal metabolism stays fairly constant, reducing your caloric intake works fine. Second law of thermodynamics.
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Re:How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data... by jerf on Monday November 02, 2009 @04:12PM (#917936)
"As long as you're not doing anything drastic and your basal metabolism stays fairly constant, reducing your caloric intake works fine. "

But that's the entire point. Reducing your caloric intake causes your metabolism to drop, for reasons that ought to be fairly obvious if you think about it. If you think about it, it also should become obvious why that's the only possible direction of causality, too.

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Re:How I Lost 20 Pounds in 20 Weeks With My iPhone (or: Data... by Locke1689 on Monday November 02, 2009 @09:31PM (#918437)
It doesn't necessarily cause your basal metabolism to drop. I just confirmed this with two physicians and a nutrition student.
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