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Originally Posted by zebraman
Not completely true.
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No. It's pretty much 100% true.
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If you consume too few calories over a period of time, your body will go into starvation mode and start hoarding everything. That can change your metabolism.
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In other words, you're burning fewer calories, which leads back to what I said.
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As someone stated earlier, the best way to lose weight is to eat small portions of healthy foods several times a day.
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While I think there's probably some merit to this, there's still no medical consensus on this subject.
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Then your body learns that it doesn't need to hoard anything because it knows it will get more food soon. Those who starve themselves and then eat one big meal can gain weight on the same amount of calories that would cause them to lose weight if they spread that same amount of calories over several small meals throughout the day.
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The effect is more likely the increased metabolism involved in digesting those more frequent meals. The difference between 6 400 Calorie meals in a day and 3 800 Calorie meals is probably negligible. If I get a chance, I'll try to pull up some papers later this week.