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Common Questions About Weight Loss Diets

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How Worried Should I Be About Metabolic Adaptation?

The most recent time that I've talked in detail about metabolic adaptation was actually a podcast segment and an article about reverse dieting you can find that article at macrofactorapp.com slash reverse dieting. The answer is yes when people do weight loss diets there is often an adaptive reduction in total daily energy expenditure that exceeds the reduction that we would anticipate based on changes in body composition so there is an adaptive process happening it is greater than zero that this kind of extra reduction in energy consumption.

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