Dieting and your Metabolism

August 1, 2010

Does you metabolism slow down when you diet…
Well…yes.
But it’s not what you think.
You see part of the myth of metabolism and obesity is that obese people have slow metabolisms.
The truth is, obese people generally have higher metabolic rates then lean people.
(Someone once asked me how many people in America had a high metabolism, my answer was ‘probably half of them’)
So the ‘lowering’ of metabolism is just your metabolism returning to where it should be.
And again we are talking about 100 Calories give or take.
Roughly the amount of calories in a Coffee with cream and sugar.
AND we are talking MASSIVE reductions in weight and EXTREMELY low calorie diets.
AND most importantly, it’s not any lower then the metabolic rate of people who were always lean (didn’t lose a ton of weight)
Here’s the video:

Original post by Brad Pilon

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