msjeep

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Why doesn't your body burn fat while your metabolism is suppressed?
I understand that when you are cutting your calories below your maintenance that your metabolism will suppress down to your eating level. But why will it do that if you have 40% or more body fat? Initially when you start cutting you will burn body fat to lose weight but at least with me it just stops and plateaus. I would…
Need help. Gaining weight like crazy.
My journey started July 2010 when I hit a high of 380 lbs. That's when I started to get control of what I was eating. The basic theory at that time was to try to cut down on fat intake and reduce calories and get more active. By Oct 2012 I was down to 270 lbs 40% BF. I was also doing Primal Blueprint approach and lowering…