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Is Semi-Starvation Sustainable?

Starvation and Semi-Starvation Are Extreme Weight Loss Tactics. Here’s the Science, and why I think it's hard to sustain.

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Fran Kilinski
Oct 24, 2023
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Semi Starvation and Weight Loss

Good Morning!

In my six years as a health coach, I’ve come to one realization that I have to break to all of my clients trying to lose weight:

“Losing weight should suck, but it should feel tolerably sucky.”

If you’ve never felt that feeling before, I hate to say it, but you might not have cut calories hard enough in your dieting practice to see meaningfu…

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