Hi, I follow Cole Robinson (Snake diet) and there’s one thing I’m a little confused about what Cole calls “metabolic suicide”. I’m aware that frequent high carb low calories slows down metabolism and I have heard him recommend to eat at maintenance calories if doing extended fasting, I’m currently on rolling 72’s. In order to avoid metabolic suicide, how much does it matter if you eat at below maintenance or at at a surplus? Would your body react differently to eating at BMR rather than TDEE?
Fasting doesn’t lower your metabolism, not eating enough lowers your metabolism and do other nasty things to your system. Better yet; during fasting it is unnecessary.
Take OMAD as an example. Normally there are three meals in a day, with OMAD there is one. If you are eating maintenance, 66% of your calories come from burning fat. But maintenance can suck; if you eat meal and a half you are still getting 50% of your calories from fat. Heck have a double plate and you are still pulling 33% from fat. That is still not shabby at all.
On the other hand cut calories and you risk lowering your metabolism. If you want things working faster don’t cut calories but exercise instead.