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Breakdown #3: There is a feedback effect between what and how much you
eat, and your basal metabolic rate
One reason that traditional diets do not work over the long term is that they
ignore the feedback effect that lowering caloric intake has on the metabolism.
What this means is that your body's BMR is affected by your daily calorie deficit
or calorie surplus.
For example, let's say your daily metabolic requirement (BMR) is 2200 calories
per day. And let's say that you want to lose 10 pounds of fat, which is the
equivalent of 35,000 calories. If the standard model of metabolism and weight
loss was accurate, you would simply need to lower your daily calorie intake to
1850 calories per day for 100 days, which would create a 350 calorie per day
deficit for 100 days, or burn 35,000 calories total, which is the equivalent of 10
pounds of fat.
However, it doesn't work this way! What happens is that when you consistently
eat fewer calories than your body is burning, your body will lower its metabolism
and burn fewer calories in order to survive. Remember that your body is
designed to survive periods of food deprivation and starvation, and so when you
give it consistently fewer calories than you are burning, the body assumes it is
starving, and knows that it must lower its metabolic requirement in order to
survive. After all, if you consistently eat fewer calories than you are burning, then
unless the body lowers its metabolic requirements, at some point you are going
to die!
So, in order to survive, the body uses a combination of burning lean muscle
mass and adjusting hormone levels (in particular leptin and thyroid hormone),
and over time the body lowers its metabolism so that the number of calories it
burns each day matches the number of calories you are eating. And because
each pound of lean muscle mass in your body burns on average 25-50 calories
MYTH‐CONCEPTION: 
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You need to eat less food (calorie restrict) to lose 
weight