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Old 08-20-2010, 02:02 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by Azure View Post
Maybe you should take your scientific books and look up with happens to your body if you eat 1500 calories, which is near starvation to some people, for 12 months.

Your metabolism and energy levels slow down.

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Completely anecdotal, but my personal experiences seem to go along with this theory. I've used deprivation diets and found it very hard to have continous weight loss. Then I read somewhere that every once in a while, you should shock your body with some high calories to keep your metabolism up and so I started doing that and it worked.

I suppose maybe it was just giving me extra energy and so I worked out harder. Whatever the reason, it worked for me.
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