does the body adapt to calories?

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youngcalorieburner
youngcalorieburner Posts: 45
in Health and Weight Loss
So i read that the body always wants to remain in homeostasis so if you do some thing less or in exess than the body will rewire itself to make it think that that is the norm. Is that the same thing with calories? If i ate less would i lose weight at first and then my metabolism would adapt and become slower or if i ate more my metabolism would adapt and become faster? Also does the adaption happen faster depending on how much lower or higher the calories are fom maintenance?

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  • mcspiffy88
    mcspiffy88 Posts: 90 Member
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    If that would be the case no one would get fat or be able to loose weight, so obviously no.

    Your metabolism does adapt but nowhere enough for you to be able to blame plateuing on it, be it gain or loss. Ever looked at pictures of somalian children ? they dont seem to adapt very well ...
  • _Zardoz_
    _Zardoz_ Posts: 3,987 Member
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    Simple answer No. Though I'm sure there will be some in mfp that will tell you the opposite despite no science

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