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Originally Posted by Calypso
My doctor told me that if you only eat one meal a day, or if you cut your calories too drastically, the body goes into "starvation mode" and the metabolism slows down. This actually makes it harder to take weight off. She told me to eat several (up to 5) small meals per day, heavy on the protein.
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This is important to remember, yes... a lot of people think they're doing a good thing when limiting calories so strictly. What they're actually doing is changing the metabolism, yes... and that makes losing even harder.