Hey everyone.
I've recently loss about 50 points (from 230 to 180) and I feel great. I no longer have any craving for sugar (though it was tough at first), and I am am feeling full sooner. Because I'm still cutting, I am currently eating about half (calories-wise) of what I used to eat at my peak, though I do not feel significantly more hungry. I'm 21 years of age.
The problem is, I have just read a bunch of articles* saying that it is impossible to maintain this lost weight. From what I understand, your body stops producing leptin at some stage which causes you to have much higher cravings and the number of fat cells you have do not go down. On top of that, I heard that you will permanently have a lowered metabolism than someone who has always been the same weight as you.
This has kept me up countless nights, fearing that it was all for nothing. Are these facts true? Once I am at my target weight, I was prepared to eat less than what I had used to, but I don't think that I can sustain this type of (cutting) diet I am currently on. For anyone who has experience with maintaining loss weight, does your body ever eventually stop fighting to regain the weight you lost?
Thanks a bunch!
*Some sources: https://www.livescience.com/53942-weight-loss-biology.html "For example, a person who weighed 200 lbs. (91 kilograms), and then lost 20 lbs. (9.1 kg), would require about 300 to 400 fewer calories per day than a person who weighed 180 lbs. (82 kg) without dieting, in order to maintain that weight" https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/how-your-body-fights-weight-loss
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