Is crash dieting or yo-yo dieting causing weight gain and slowing your metabolic rate?
Dec 4, 2023 by Matt Johnson
What most people don’t understand about what happens when you do this for a prolonged period is that it starts to slow down the metabolism and cause it to go into a starvation response. Your body will protect itself by becoming extremely efficient at absorbing more calories from food. At the same time, your body also deliberately conserves stored energy and burns less of it.
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