The normal response to restricted food intake is a decrease in resting metabolic rate. Dieting slows you down because dieting slows down the process of the active vital organs.
Overeating will not make you thin, but it will speed up the rate at which your body uses energy. After overeating, your metabolic rate when asleep and at rest speeds up and so does the energy used as a direct result of eating.
Because body fat is metabolically less active than fat-free tissue (muscle and vital organs), the greater the proportion of fat-free tissue, the more the energy requirement. The greater the proportion of fat in the body, the less energy required. And, from adulthood onward, energy requirements decline about 4% per decade. The more you weigh and the more lean body tissue you have, the higher your metabolic rate will tend to always be.
Copyright 2011 Lynn Borenius Brown
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