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This is like when a person goes on a diet, loses weight, then stops the diet.
More like stopping an antibiotic course mid-way.
Or stopping your blood pressure medicine because you don't have high blood pressure anymore.
Okay, so you're overweight.
To lose weight, you must consume fewer calories than you burn. You do this for awhile. Your weight decreases.
Your weight has decreased to your target weight.
If you continue to consume fewer calories than you burn, you will continue to lose weight, becoming underweight.
To maintain your target weight, you must consume as many calories that you burn.
Your weight loss diet will be more restrictive than a weight maintenance diet.
I AM TOO A HUMAN BEING. JUST CHANGE THE EATING CYCLE PARAMETERS UNTIL TARGET WEIGHT ACQUIRED.
You're supposed to stop the diet when you reached your target weight. So not like that at all.
Only if you want to get even fatter.
Find a diet that works for life, not a "lose 5 kilos in 3 weeks" fad diet if you want to have a healthy weight.
If you're on a diet that will make you lose weight you can't stay on that diet when you want to keep your weight. Doesn't mean you have to go back to the diet that made you fat. This really is just very basic common sense.
Reality unfortunately rarely follows "basic common sence". And all the research shows that for most people in most cases restrictive diets only give temporary results.
Well get a diet that makes you stay on your target weight. Those fad diets will just not work, as you just regain the weight when you stop.
Diet also doesn't mean weight-losing. You can have a cheese-less diet (god forbid) for example.