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bandatx
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What time to stop eating on a calorie deficit
What are things I need to do about caloroe deficit

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,627 Member
    Timing of eating has little to no effect on weight loss. What matters most is the total number of calories compared to the total number of calories spent being alive and moving. Eat fewer calories than we burn, lose weight.

    It's that simple, but also that hard. It's possibly hard finding new habits to stay full on fewer calories.

    Also, human bodies are dynamic: The number of calories we eat influences the number of calories we burn. Why? Loosely speaking, under-eating makes us drag through our days, moving less so burning fewer calories than we might expect. There's a sweet spot - sensibly moderate weight loss rate - where we lose fat, but energy level stays reasonably high.

    Also, a slow loss rate can possibly get us to goal weight in less calendar time than a theoretically fast loss rate that causes deprivation-triggered over-eating, breaks in the action, or even giving up altogether because it's Just Too Hard.

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