Refeed/diet break or cut calories lower - a plateau discussi

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Five Unusual Reasons You're Not Losing Weight

stroutman81

BFDeal wrote: »

I don't really get the whole plateau thing. All everyone says is "eat 20% below TDEE." OK, so I'm doing that already. Why would my losses just stop randomly. It's BS.

No.

You seem to be implying that the numbers we're dealing with are exact sciences and that they're fixed.

Hint.

They're not.

Calories, by their very nature, aren't 100% accurate. Do some research on the atwater factors. For example:

xhttp://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/6/1649.full

Even if they were 100% accurate... the only constant in the body is that it's not constant.

If you actually had the resources to ensure a true 20% deficit today (you don't), that doesn't guarantee that same level of food intake will create a 20% deficit day after day going forward. Things change as the body adapts to hypocaloric conditions.

Heck, even the loss of tissue creates a lower TDEE given the lower energy cost associated with moving a lighter body around. Not to mention the fact that muscle AND fat are metabolically costly tissues... so when we lose one or each... total energy requirements go down (and thus the original deficit begins to shrink).

But beyond tissue loss, we're still dealing with things such as reduced thyroid output, weaker signaling of leptin to the brain, and a host of other changes that can and do alter TDEE.

stroutman81

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