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When embarking on a new diet, the biggest mistake that most people make is severely limiting calories. The logic goes that as long as you are burning more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. Foundationally, this is correct; there is one major problem. When diet nutrition is lacking in adequate calories, your body enters into starvation mode. This is a built-in survival mechanism passed down from our ancestors.

When the body is in starvation mode, it clings to every calorie that you take in, storing it as fat for future use. Your metabolism inevitably slows to a crawl, and your diet works against itself.

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