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The body is however very much wired towards preventing famine. Theories like that don't explain why I am the same weight on a calorie band of 300...
TDEE can go up, unnoticed (most likely cause for a lot of people)
My body put calories in growth, instead of basic repairs of tissue only
Hormones change, leptin goes down, ghrelin goes up.Absolutely. The body must be very adaptable in how it uses/stores/wastes the energy we feed it. There must be billions of people who have never even thought about calories, let alone weighed out or measured quantities of food. Yet they nicely live in a window where their body is a steady weight as the various hormones triggered by food intake or lack of it, get to work self regulating metabolism and influencing hunger/ satiety.
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Basic stuff, but yes that's the plan, add more carbs in (as protein/fat are essential not carbs but they give energy) and that means I can also have the occasional cookie and cheese. Hmmmmmmm...
"So long as your calories consumed is less than your TDEE your going to loose weight. Either that or you are the free energy experiment that all scientists are trying to find"
The body is however very much wired towards preventing famine. Theories like that don't explain why I am the same weight on a calorie band of 300...
TDEE can go up, unnoticed (most likely cause for a lot of people)
My body put calories in growth, instead of basic repairs of tissue only
Hormones change, leptin goes down, ghrelin goes up.
Granted, the effect is probably not as big as people think, but some people store all extra food as fat, some burn fat like mad and some of that is due to genetics. All you can do to know it is set up your data (calories, macros) and track exercise.