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Originally Posted by nik-
This is a question I have about calorie limiting.
Lets say my BMR is 2100. To lose a pound a week, my calorie deficit needs to be 3500 a week which puts me at 1600 a day.
If I eat 1600 calories a day, and burn 500 via walking and exercise (bringing my total net to 1100, way lower than the number), does my body consider that starving? Or is it kosher because I still ate a reasonable amount of calories? What if I have a really active day and burn 1000 calories and still eat that 1600, does my body punish me for this?
TLDR: Does the body do this shutdown based on total calories minus exercise or calories eaten.
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I hesitate to give much more than broad advice, do seek out Yoni Friedhoff on Facebook and youtube for sure.
But to what I think is the ideal way to go is not restrict your diet so to speak, eat 2100 calories a day if that is what you require (that is a hard number to know unless you do some very specific testing), BUT eating very healthy with loads of veggies, cut the sugar, don't be afraid of fats, and find something you enjoy doing to move around, biking, walking, the gym if you don't loathe it lol.
Just finding someone like Yoni helped me a lot, his Obesity clinic and his vast knowledge as a scientific skeptic and harsh critic of health Canada, the sugar epidemic made me a big fan after being introduced to him by Kai Hibbard the BL US contestant that has been blasting the show for over a decade.
Sadly there is no great answer, we need more research in to the declining metabolic rate in dieters, we need to find more specific reasons, replicate the results and that will take more time. This study on BL contestants is not the first time this has been seen, but it certainly is the one which is getting the most attention, which is great.