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baronvonj@piefed.social 18 hours ago Our bodies each have an equilibrium of calories consumed/burned that it really wants to be maintained. If you start dieting to reduce calories consumed, then it automatically adjusts so that your body burns fewer calories just for existing, thereby reducing the deficit you created with your diet. So people see the diet not working and give up rather than taking the time to dial in a sustainable dietary calorie deficit that allows for weight loss without leaving you physically and mentally exhausted by your bodies compensatory reaction.
qaeta@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Unfortunately, I get this feeling before even reaching maintenance numbers, let alone a deficit. Losing weight is absolutely brutal for me because there is no available option for “lose weight without complete and abject misery” for my body apparently.
Still doing it (with occasionally falls off the wagon, but get right back on), but fuck me does it suck.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Same here. The most weight I lost was in the 4 months after my then wife told me she didn’t want to be married anymore, while I figured out she had already been cheating on me for months, I was already in such misery not eating didn’t add any more… I lost 40 pounds in 4 months… Haven’t been able to continue…