Is My Metabolism Damaged From Dieting? (What Your Hunger Is Really Telling You) | Ep 487

About this episode

The episode discusses whether years of dieting have damaged metabolism and what hunger signals really indicate about fat loss efforts.

Has years of dieting on and off damaged your metabolism? It that why fat loss feels so hard now? This is one of the most common fears I hear, and the short answer is almost certainly... no. So what is going on? Most of what feels like a broken metabolism is one of two things: either the normal discomfort of a deficit or the way your appetite pushes back as you lose fat, preventing a consistent deficit (where you feel like you're dieting but can never lose weight). If you look at weight loss s...

People in this episode

Host: Philip Pape

Topics covered

• metabolism
• dieting
• fat loss
• appetite
• nutrition

Keywords

• metabolism
• dieting
• fat loss
• appetite
• hunger
• deficit
• weight loss

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