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Does your body fight weight loss? The honest truth

Does your body fight weight loss? The honest truth

Your body does push back when you lose weight — BMR dips ~30-120 kcal/day and hunger rises. But this is a flexible adaptation, not a fixed trap. Keep muscle, hold a modest deficit, stay consistent, and the deficit still does the work.

13 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Have you heard that your body has a 'set point' — a weight it fights to stay at, so fat loss is basically hopeless? It sounds smart. It is also half-true, and the half that is true is much smaller than people think. Let's look at what really happens when you lose weight, and why a steady deficit still wins.

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