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Originally Posted by Metamorphosis
Burning more calories than you ingest tells you're body this:
"I'm starving. Please hold onto everything."
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lol... this is
literally the only way to lose weight, i mean, except for cutting off limbs or something.
youre probably thinking of people who eat so little that their body begins to not only burn fat for energy, but digest lean mass like muscles, bones, and organs for nutrients. also, it will slow your metabolism so that the fat lost will actually be even less than you would if you had a smaller deficit.
what you have to do is ensure you eat enough calories and nutrients that your body is getting everything it needs, but less total calories than you need so your body will use fat to make up the difference. this is done by eating better quality foods... think more nutritional bang for your caloric buck, then cutting out some foods like complex carbohydrates that are a primarily for energy.
someone who eats 3000 calories a day of junk food isnt eating nearly as well as someone who eats half as much calories of healthy food.
junk food tends to be high in sugar and carbohydrates, so the person who eats healthy will probably feel hungry quite a bit more often, that's a sign that they have a higher, healthier metabolism that isnt being fed by processed sugars and such.
i eat and burn about 3500 calories a day and im still always hungry if im eating like a should... seems like it's when i have a bunch of junk food that i dont feel hungry
thats because im eating a ton of energy - fat, sugar, etc. but that doesnt mean im getting the nutrients i need.