Another key is that we didn't
drop overall calories, we just replaced most of the carbs with fat calories.
Not exact matches
Considering that the subjects» total metabolic rate or
calorie burn
dropped about 40 %, that's still a fairly small
drop overall.
Most people can successfully
drop fat simply by restricting
overall calories.
This happens because people often start eating less
calorie dense / more filling foods (vegetables for example) despite the
drop in
calorie intake
overall.
The rub is that I suspect that on an LC or VLC diet that brings on physiological insulin resistance, kinda like a starvation metabolism, it's very difficult for many to reduce
overall average
calories to the level they need to
drop those last pounds and this is exactly where adding in the starches help for me, lots of PHD folks, and lots of folks who've been reporting here even going was back to the potato hack days, before RS.