The Diet Paradox: a successful diet fairy tale?

Are you familiar with this story? Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to lose weight…
152 lb Female; Goal: To lose 10-15 lb
She begins a 6 week very restricted calorie diet with the following results:

Will she live happily ever after?
Facts:
a) 54 % of weight loss came from Lean Body Mass (LBM).
b) The drop in LBM decreased her RMR – so she is burning fewer calories each day than when she started. Now she is set up for a relapse!!

Now the temporary diet is over (lost 13 lb), because sooner or later on a strict calorie and food restricted diet almost everyone “falls of the wagon”. After a period of low calories, her body “tricks her” into binge eating by triggering severe cravings and hunger.

So even if she does not binge and simply goes back to eating “normal” again, her body is not burning calories as efficiently as before. Therefore the number of calories that used to maintaining her weight now causes her to gain weight.

As the weeks pass, the weight gradually creeps back on until she finally gains back all the fat she lost (plus a little extra).

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