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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
Requiring less calories to maintain a lower weight is pretty straight forward. If you start of needing 3,000 calories a day to maintain and then lose a bunch of weight, you're clearly going to need less. You just have to adjust your intake of food and realize that the days of burning through a large pizza and a six pack are over.
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Though it's not as simple as calories in = your weight.
Say you do that lifestyle change and are down to 1800 a day to maintain the new lower weight. Then for whatever reason you gain back to the weight you were at before, except now instead of needing 3000 calories a day to maintain that high weight you'll only need 2800 (and often will feel hungry so you still eat 3000 and end up at a higher weight, people who lose weight and gain it back very often end up higher). You lose the weight again and to maintain the lower weight now you need 1500 to stay there.
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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
It is also possible to feel full on the lower calorie amounts, just as it is possible to feel like your starving on a high calorie intake. It boils down to what you are eating.
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What you are eating is a factor, but it's not the only factor.
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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
Curious as to which program you chose, as some of the stuff you typed sounds very similar to what the HAES people preach.
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I had to Google HAES so it's not that, I've previously done more fad type or strict diet programs (which are a huge problem not a solution I now know). More recently it's been lifestyle change type and government programs that discuss research and such.