Vegancrossfit
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But what if your appetite is above maintenance? Or what if your maintenance intake keeps you overweight?
Comes down to food selection. There’s a lot of empty calories out there, added fats (butters, oils) with zero nutritional value... same goes with added sugars, refined starch. Very low satiation effect. Quasi useless to eat, yet still better than nothing at all.
I think the abundance of foods is probably better than calorie restriction in our modern low nutrient density context. Like if you’re going to eat foods that are pointless like produce grown in depleted soils, chicken breasts, white rice... whatever people label ‘clean’... don’t combine the lack of micros with a lack of calories. That’s going to be ugly and I see that all the time: skinnies with destroyed hair and anemic looking faces, no strength low libido bad mood low energy etc. It’s terrible.
There are experiments on rats where their appetite drop once micros are way up.