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Originally Posted by Azure
That may be exactly what you've done, and exactly why people will always say that you should lift weights alongside cardio to help retain lean muscle mass so your metabolism doesn't go to crap.
Or, like you said, the lower calorie count has reduced your metabolic rate. My advice would be to start eating more. Nothing seriously, maybe 200 calories more to start with. At 165#, you should easily be burning 2,000 calories per day.
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Unless he's going more than 8 hours without a meal (besides sleep) he's not losing muscle by eating less.
He wants to lose weight and you think he should eat more? Really?
He was eating 1500 calories a day and went up to 2000. Unless he's burning 500+ calories more a day he's not going to lose anymore weight; in fact he'll gain some.