{"id":330144,"date":"2020-09-21T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=330144"},"modified":"2020-09-21T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T20:02:32","slug":"slow-metabolism-and-rapid-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/slow-metabolism-and-rapid-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow metabolism and rapid weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: So I\u2019ve been on a calorie deficit for months now, and I feel like I need to drop it down some more because my weight won\u2019t budge. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>A:<\/strong> What inevitably happens through the course of any calorie restricted diet is the reduction in your daily energy expenditure (how many calories you burn). Past a certain point, and this is largely contextual, you become less responsive toward actively losing weight. It\u2019s only natural for your body to adapt that way the further along you\u2019re in a diet. You can\u2019t be in a calorie deficit forever.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, there are strategies to attenuate the drop in your energy expenditure, but in the interest of keeping things simple, this is exactly why you should never stop strength training.<\/p>\n<p>Equally important, too, is getting in sufficient protein. Both are vital as packing on muscle plays a significant role in your metabolic rate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Several of my friends are on the ketogenic diet, and they lost a lot of weight. It\u2019s kind of discouraging because my rate of progress isn\u2019t as fast as I\u2019d like it to be.<\/p>\n<p>A: <\/strong>Try not to compare your results to someone else\u2019s. Everyone has a different starting point. In addition, genetics, lifestyle, and dietary habits affect one\u2019s rate of progress. Therefore, the outcome is highly individual.<\/p>\n<p>Fact is, anybody can see a pretty significant drop on the scale in the initial phase of their weight loss. It\u2019s not unheard of to lose five pounds within a week or two. Most people are fairly adaptive. However, it\u2019s important to note beyond that, if you\u2019re losing weight at an extremely rapid rate that is a prime indication you\u2019re losing a greater proportion of lean body mass, not fat.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t to discredit the utility of the keto diet. We just need to appreciate the value of being more judicious with our approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: So I\u2019ve been on a calorie deficit for months now, and I feel like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":321626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}