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0 points1shox3y ago0 comments

try out my earlier comment "Try Calculating your TDEE (at sedentary) and eating 500 calories (accurately) below it for 12 weeks and come back, you'll weigh 12lbs less. I don't think that's a red herring."

Get back to me in 12 weeks.

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exfatloss3y ago

The thing is it's not possible if the metabolism is broken.

It's a bit like saying "If I double my velocity every hour, will I reach 1000000mph?" Yes and no.

The human metabolism is a dynamic system with feedback. You can't sustainably eat 500kcal below TDEE for long periods of time because the body will turn down your TDEE to the minimum. For me that's around 800-1,000kcal/day. I've stayed weight stable for 2 months straight eating around 1,000kcal/day. I've also LOST weight eating over 4,000kcal/day (very different phase of my life, obviously).

CI and CO are not unrelated and you can't change one and expect the other to stay fixed.

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