Chronically Dieting

I’ve talked about chronically low calorie eating and dieting a lot lately. I want to make sure you understand what is going is on and why you have stalled progress when you feed your body deficit calories long term for months or years.

Your body will adapt to whatever you give it. So if you forever are only giving it diet calories it will start to store fat because it thinks it isn’t going to get any more food. Your metabolism slows to nothing burning as few as calories as possible in attempt to store energy. Fat loss is the last thing on its mind, it’s just trying to figure out how to function on this amount of food long term

Track your food and see what you are really intaking every day.  Check your stats on a TDEE calculator and see where that puts you. If you eating below what this calculator is recommending for your stats daily for long term (several months/years) and you are overweight, not losing fat, or a standstill then your body has likely adapted to low calorie eating

The only place to go is up. You have to slowly increase your food and get to more maintenance level calories and stay there for awhile while your metabolism resets. After some time in maintenance you could try deficit again for the SHORT TERM.

I hope that helps explain why some have “stalled” or “plateaued”. Your body has ADAPTED. Questions? ❤️SC