Is Your Metabolism Broken?
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If you could ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ, or slow it down so much that weight loss was impossible, how could anorexia or starvation exist?โฃ
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What if I told you that this entire concept of metabolic damage is ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐๐ป and preys on the desperation of dieters who hit a wall in their efforts? Instead of people helping you understand the true reason for your plateau, they want you to believe they have the ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ and it is tied to your โ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏโ metabolism. Although it is great for their business, it isnโt you who is the problem โ it is those whom perpetuate false ideas so you keep trekking the dead end that youโre on. โฃ
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What most people think of metabolic damage is actually ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ผ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐, where the body actively down-regulates processes that arenโt essential for life in an attempt to slow the weight loss and stall the perceived starvation. ๐๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ด, ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. โฃ
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐.โฃ
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But why is it that when people start to eat like normal after dieting they gain weight? โฃ
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Because they have a ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ after dieting by virtue of weighing less! If you lose a bunch of weight, that means less energy needed to keep you alive and less energy required to move your now lighter body around. Itโs not damage, itโs being lighter.โฃ
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In Ancel Keysโ classic Minnesota Starvation Experiment, normal-weight men lost 25% of their body weight over a 6-month dieting period. Their metabolic rate dropped by 40%, but 25% was due to weighing less and only 15% was from adaptive thermogenesis. ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐น๐ผ๐๐.โฃ
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These ideas can be hard for small women to wrap their head around given the already really low resting metabolic rate. If you have an adaptive down-regulation on an already low daily burn, then it may very well feel like you are starving to achieve further weight loss. ๐๐ง ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ. That will let you eat more food while maintaining a deficit.โฃ
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Finally, you donโt need to reverse diet and slowly increase your calories back to normal. All that does is prolong the diet. Just eat at your new maintenance calories again, which will probably be lower than before you started dieting because, again, you weight less than you did before!
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