I’m no expert, but I think you need to look into catabolic vs anabolic exercise and the effects of each.

Seems like “eat less, move more” works within a given metabolic framework to lose weight over the short term, but then your body adjusts that metabolic framework so that a lower calorie intake is necessary to maintain body weight.

I think our lizard brains think it’s dumb to lose a ton of weight, so you’d have to go to real extremes to overcome that. Or at least I know a few people who eat very little but maintain their body weight.

Better off being jacked. Stress your body so that it thinks it needs to build muscle to survive, and then give it the building blocks to do that.

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Posted by lsu777

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Posted on 3/1/24 at 11:32 am to Earnest_P

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I’m no expert, but I think you need to look into catabolic vs anabolic exercise and the effects of each.

Seems like “eat less, move more” works within a given metabolic framework to lose weight over the short term, but then your body adjusts that metabolic framework so that a lower calorie intake is necessary to maintain body weight.

I think our lizard brains think it’s dumb to lose a ton of weight, so you’d have to go to real extremes to overcome that. Or at least I know a few people who eat very little but maintain their body weight.

Better off being jacked. Stress your body so that it thinks it needs to build muscle to survive, and then give it the building blocks to do that.

its more your body adjust to the demands pushed upon it.....with all that running and limited amount of true resistance training your body says...well shite i dont need all that muscle to be efficient, actually need less for these demands so im gonna shift the metabolic burn to wear im burning just as much muscle as fat

its not quite that simple but similar

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