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Your metabolism is responsible for burning calories. It adjusts depending on how much you eat each day. For example, if you eat 3000 calories every day, your metabolism adjusts to start burning 3000 calories every day. So if you don't eat, your metabolism pretty much shuts off and the next time you eat, it will take time to change, and therefore every calorie you ate will be stored as fat.

This is the reason diets don't work very well, people limit their calorie intake, which slows down the rate of their metabolism.

The metabolisms slows down when someone eats less food because the body perceives this as someone not having access to enough food, it's called 'Survival Mode.'

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