Are These Weight Myths?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Essentially I've been wondering about two weight loss things I've heard:

1. If you diet lots, or fast, your body will change its metabolism, forever, so you will burn fewer calories and gain weight easier in the future. If this is true, is this just about severe fasting? Or what?

2. Your body has "setpoints" of what weight it wants to be. This one doesn't even begin to make sense to me ... is it true?

1. exercis e and diet affects maetabolic rate but not permanently

2. you can plateau as body adjusts to calorie/exercise so need to adjst one or both to get away from palatey

1. I have heard this too, that if you don't eat 'enough' your body goes into starvation mode and you hang onto all food calories. I am not sure if it is true, but I think there must be something in it.

2. I think that most people do have a weight that feels natural to them.

These are my feelings not facts

Hmm, that makes sense.

Crunchie, I'm pretty sure your first one is true because I knew someone who just couldn't lose weight and his doctor told him that it was because he wasn't eating enough and that he mustn't skip lunch as he had been doing.