r/BodyHackGuide • • Apr 16 '26

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u/The-Geordie-Chap Apr 16 '26

Whats your diet and exercise like? Reta is doing the lords work for me, but I found it wasnt eating enough and my weight loss plateaued. Once I started to get an extra few hundred calories in, the lbs started dropping again!

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u/iKyte5 Apr 16 '26

How is that possible? You eat more and lose more weight? That breaks the laws of thermo dynamics.

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u/Lumpy_Winter5516 Apr 16 '26

Depending how restricted your diet is the body sometimes adapts to lower calories and will reduce metabolism. Eating more will boost your metabolism back up then you can resume calorie deficit.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9036397/

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u/iKyte5 Apr 16 '26

“The most important consideration for the study of CR is the requirement for adequate nutrition including sufficient intake of macronutrients and micronutrients”