lilykoi hawaii | Diets Always Fail: How Calorie Restriction CAUSES Weight Gain @lilykoihawaii | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 15 minutes ago.
Long time, no see, my friends! As promised (a really long time ago), it is time to revisit the subject of evidence-based weight loss. Today we're taking a dive into the metabolic-slowing effects of PURPOSEFUL restriction of calorie intake, recommended by virtually every weight-loss diet program in the world.

Somehow--despite literally billions of failed calorie restriction attempts--marketing departments trying to sell the public weight loss plans still promote purposeful calorie restriction even though ample clinical evidence is available to prove that such diets slow the metabolism and prime the body to regain as much fat tissue as possible once extra calories again become available. Wow, that was a long sentence pointing out a lot of bullshit.

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Primary Citations :
Most thorough reading:
Biology’s response to dieting: the impetus for weight regain. 2011
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3174765

Metabolic slowing with massive weight loss despite preservation of fat-free mass
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3387402

Addressing weight loss recidivism: A clinical focus on metabolic rate and the psychological aspects of obesity
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3914266/#B54

Maintenance of lost weight and long-term management of obesity
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5764193

Randomized clinical trials of weight-loss maintenance: a review
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676575

Smaller Papers/Abstracts:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18842775
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19822185
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6694559
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7632212
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2912016
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1105816
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938413002448

Effect of calorie restriction on thyroid hormones:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00030.2013
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2341229
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3702673
academic.oup.com/jcem/article/91/8/3232/2656790
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3887425
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19208852