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Originally Posted by red92gt
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If you are cutting and eat 500 below maintenance but also burn 500 in exercise (lets say your maintenance is 2000, so you would in effect be consuming 1000 calories per day), will your body still go into the fat conservation mode that it does when you don't eat enough, even though you are eating a healthy amount, just burning more off?
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Whitout reading all the replies above, I´d say no in a short run but yes in a long run. Eating only 50% of the maintenance level will certailny shut down your metabolism.
A good rule of thumb - acoording to my experience - is to eat 500 to 700 kcal below your consuption 6 days per week and one day per week eat +1000 kcal above your consumption. Eatine more once a week will keep your metabolism going and does good for you mind.