What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macrows Podcast. As always, I am

your host Mike Milner. In today's episode, we're going to talk about something that is

very fun.

It's fun because if you're like me and you enjoy food,

you probably have been wondering,

what is the upper limit that you can eat without gaining weight or better

stated, can I use food to upregulate my metabolism?

And it's a great question and it's a great topic because we often talk about the reverse.

We often talk about the reverse.

We often talk about it from the lens of calorie restriction

and we know what that does to your metabolism.

We know the protective mechanisms that kick in. Your body wants to keep you alive.

Your body only cares about survival. And therefore, when energy is scarce, your body will downregulate your metabolic rate,

it will prioritize survival over other functions.

So we see depressed immune system, lower sex drive,

reduction in sex hormones, reduced thyroid function,

things that are not too pretty and not super fun to deal with.

So the best way that I've heard this described is that if you truly eat 1,200 calories a day for a long time for a long enough time and everybody's different and when these adaptations will occur,

but if you're truly like actually eating 1,200 calories a day, eventually you will create a 1,200 calorie metabolism,

meaning that that will ultimately become your new adapted maintenance.

And I say adapted maintenance because it's not your real maintenance,

it's just what you have said to your body,

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