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Originally Posted by Junaid  You may want to look into the work of Dr. John Berardi at John Berardi - Articles He has documented several cases where he had to UP peoples' calories significantly to get them to lose fat. |
Yup, happens quite frequently actually with most anyone working with people who are chronically eating below maintenance and significantly reduce their body fat.
If I were going to be looking to read an author/researcher though about the topic I'd probably lean toward Lyle McDonald. I mean, he's the one that really brought Leptin into light for the fitness community.
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If you have been dieting hard for a long period, then your plateau is probably real and lowering calories further or doing more exercise is just going to be counterproductive.
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This really depends on how much body fat one is carrying. You left that out here and that makes a big difference. If one plateaus and is still carrying a good bit of fat, chances are it has more to do with not dropping calories enough below their new maintenance than anything else.
Granted, a break is a great psychological buffer, but beyond that in an overweight individual, I wouldn't use the word "probably" above.
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Now simply adding more calories isn't always the answer. Some types of calories are going to be stored as fat because the body has been waiting for them to be around so that it can do just that (while you dieted, your endocrine system produced a nett fat-storage metabolic profile).
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You mean some types of nutrients?
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie.
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