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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil
its not always about cals in vs cals out...its also about timing as well. ive been on the same diet for about 3 months now, same calories...upped my morning cals, lowered my nightly...dropped some BF put on some more mass. you always have to trick your body, if youre not changing on your current diet or routine something has got to change!
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Again, as i've said many many times now. i'm not saying its the final answer. I'm saying that is where it all begins. Ones metabolism will speed up, slow down etc. Of course you are correct that you have to continue to trick your body as you continue to lose weight and it will get harder to lose fat as your body fat % drops and your body fights harder to resist losing fat... we're not talking about an athlete trying to get from 15% bodyfat to 8%. That's very different than an obese lady who wants wants to believe her body somehow violates the laws of physics as an excuse.
That aside, I am saying this to address the idea of "i have this lady who is trying to lose weight and just can't"... and "she eats less calories than she burns but gains fat" which is absurd and impossible... and it certainly does her no favors when failure is being blamed on the tooth fairy and unicorns, rather than simple truths of anatomy and physiology and she is left with no means to get on track and achieve her goals.
Being in the fitness industry for many years, there is nothing more disturbing than seeing people in distress, who desperately want to lose weight and that not only lack any understanding of how their body works and what they need to do,... but who are then continually having their heads filled full of horrible information and harmful messages that will set them back even further or drive them to getting surgery as a solution.