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  I have a simple caveat [1], as well as some complicated disagreements [2].
  
  The simple caveat is that it depends on your starting point. I've lost 60 lbs so far and am now what most would consider "pretty fit." I'd like to lose another five pounds to really define my abs. Losing that last five pounds has been a bitch. When I was 200+, losing five pounds meant making minor adjustments. There was a lot of room for small errors, like cheat days and whatnot. But going from 155 to 150 requires some very serious dedication, and you can easily lose a week of progress with one poorly balanced meal.
  The complicated disagreement is that more and more science is suggesting that the entire appetite, hunger, metabolic system, etc. are all intertwined in a very complicated, endocrinologically active system. There are hormones and such at play that we still don't understand. The big takeaway for me is that people have vastly different experiences when it comes to this area. There is a fundamental hormonal system that science is just scratching the surface of understanding. So what might seem like "I'm hungry, but I can push through it" for you could easily feel for someone else that their entire body is screaming "we are actually starving to death and you need to eat NOW!!!" Just like some people have severe allergies (their immune system freaking out over something small) while others just get a little sniffle - the body is complicated and we are biased towards our own experiences.
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