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Originally Posted by Steve  I've gone well below my BMR when dieting. But it's probably a good rule to throw out there due to the simple fact that many people diet too aggressively and this nets out to a lack of progress once the psychological factors of it all are accounted for.
The fact that you aren't losing what your said caloric deficit suggests you should be losing isn't ironic in the least.
You've got things like:
*you're working with a lot of estimates
*metabolic rate is adaptive in nature
*you don't ONLY lose fat while dieting
Etc, etc. |
I guess the irony I was referring to was in regards to me being a Math Teacher and I live by numbers (depend on them very highly). So when it doesn't work out I assume it is the formulas that fail me but never the calculations (because I can NEVER be wrong
).
Still, I wanted to just say that it was thrown out there and really had never heard it before and wanted to know if it was a good rule of thumb.
