If a list of nutritional urban legends existed, the idea that your body can easily slip into starvation mode would be high up there. Drilling down a bit, I’m specifically talking about the often-repeated belief that if you limit your caloric intake or even fast for a day or several days, your metabolism is going to take a hit because your body goes into so-called “starvation mode” and does everything it can to preserve energy. Here’s the deal: When you read or hear about this concept, it’s usually because someone is trying to explain why dramatically cutting calories to lose weight is a bad idea. The starvation mode theory holds that crash-dieting isn’t just dangerous, but it’s also counterproductive. You’re trying to lose weight, but you’re actually slowing down your metabolism, which makes it even harder to accomplish your goals! Unfortunately, the idea that crash-dieting will slow your metabolism, while well intentioned, isn’t really an accurate read of the science. I’ll talk about why in more detail. But also, something else I’m going to talk about: Crash-dieting or yo-yo dieting or dramatically cutting calories for the sake of weight loss is definitely still a bad idea, and also counterproductive. Just…not because of the metabolism thing.
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We respect your privacy. Is losing weight one of your resolutions for the New Year? The secret to your success may be to avoid extreme diet and exercise plans and instead stick with more measured, steadier regimens. A study released last August from researchers at Drexel University in Philadelphia found that dieters were more successful if they adhered to a program where pounds came off in a consistent way in those first weeks of dieting. The Drexel team found that people who dropped about the same amount of weight week after week at the beginning of a new regimen were more likely keep the weight off over the long term, compared with those whose weight loss varied weekly. The researchers looked at the number of pounds the participants lost from week to week during the first 12 weeks of their various programs. For example, if two dieters each lost 20 pounds in 12 weeks, the one who did it by steadily dropping a pound or two a week stands a better chance of maintaining that loss and possibly losing more than the person who dropped 4 pounds in one week, and then gained a pound the next, lost 3 the week after, and so on. Some seem to lose roughly the same amount each week, while others bounce around more. This research says it does have something to do with it. The researchers investigated whether emotional eating and food cravings might explain the variability in weekly weight loss but were not able to find a connection.