Because the metabolism slows down the leaner you get and leptin slows down.
You just re-stated what he wrote. Metabolism slows...fat loss slows. You didnt prove anything. Also, seeing as you are spouting off what Adam is saying about how beneficial hypocaloric diets are...and how you DONT LOSE MUSCLE.....what do you have to say about this?
Metabolic and structural changes in skeletal muscle during hypocaloric dieting.
Russell DM, Walker PM, Leiter LA, Sima AA, Tanner WK, Mickle DA, Whitwell J, Marliss EB, Jeejeebhoy KN.
Hypocaloric dieting and fasting alter the contraction-relaxation characteristics of skeletal muscle and result in low frequency fatigue. We report the metabolic and structural changes in skeletal muscle in five morbidly obese female subjects who had biopsies of the gastrocnemius muscle on a base-line diet (2500 kcal/day) followed by a repeat biopsy after 2 wk of a 400-kcal/day carbohydrate diet. Hypocaloric dieting resulted in a significant increase in the intracellular muscle calcium content (p less than 0.05), which may account for the observed changes in muscle function. There were no significant changes in muscle glycogen, lactate, pyruvate, or free energy stores. There was a significant decrease in muscle enzymes [phosphofructokinase (p less than 0.05), succinate dehydrogenase (p less than 0.02)] and some muscle amino acid levels [glutamine (p less than 0.025), glycine (p less than 0.01), and alanine (p less than 0.02)],
while muscle histochemistry showed type II fiber atrophy (p less than 0.025). However, these changes reflect a generalized response to hypocaloric dieting and probably do not explain the specific functional changes. Change in the muscle calcium content is probably an important mediator of the adverse functional effects of malnutrition.
