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Question about metabolic rate

Nascha333
Nascha333 Posts: 56
edited February 14 in Health and Weight Loss
I hope this doesn’t sound like a stupid question, but I remember reading a long time ago that if you reduce your calories, your metabolic rate adjusts to burn the same amount you are consuming? Wouldn’t this be a constant struggle to lose weight? You would constantly need to reduce calories in order to continue to lose weight. This is likely completely wrong but if it isn’t, does this happen overnight? Or over a period of weeks or months?

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  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    ...I remember reading a long time ago that if you reduce your calories, your metabolic rate adjusts to burn the same amount you are consuming?

    NO.

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    "damepiglet"
  • Nascha333
    Nascha333 Posts: 56
    ...I remember reading a long time ago that if you reduce your calories, your metabolic rate adjusts to burn the same amount you are consuming?

    NO.

    dame_piglet_does_not_approve_1.png

    "damepiglet"

    lol, good to know! ;)
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