Weight loss: What actually works?
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The Effects of Weight Loss on Metabolic Rate
Your metabolic rate is really just a reflection of how many calories you burn, lying at rest doing nothing. This is not you being active, it's not you eating and digesting. If there's less of you, then there's less calories that you're burning at rest. That sounds quite scary, if you say it slows down your metabolism. Does that basically just means the body uses less calories while at rest? Yes.
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