Many people believe you get to a point on a diet where you hit starvation mode — where your body gets so concerned about how few calories are coming in that it slows down your metabolism to
reduce calorie output.
Not exact matches
You can do this in two ways;
reduce your
calorie «input» or / and increase your
calorie «
output».
This leads to a negative feedback cycle of cutting
calories leading to
reduced thyroid
output, which leads to a slower metabolism, which leads to cutting
calories some more — eventually causing your weight loss to stall.
Because of their
reduced metabolic rate and slower thyroid
output, endomorphs don't typically need as many
calories to build muscle and optimize their fat loss potential.
While a slowed metabolic rate and
reduced thyroid
output are a couple of side effects of a low
calorie intake, your body also starts to shed muscle mass.
It's very hard to put a number of
calories, since the body can do lots of different things to increase or decrease its energy
output: if you eat less, you may be able to maintain the same workout and even the same number of steps, but your spontaneous movements (fidgeting, getting up for a folder, etc.) may drop dramatically,
reducing your caloric
output despite your best attempts to measure it.
The pistachio cyclists were 4.8 % slower than the controls, with
reduced power
output, despite consuming extra
calories too.