These types of people tend to have trouble sitting still, do a lot of pacing and tap their feet and bounce their knees when sitting. Skipping meals causes a decrease in your metabolic rate until you eat something. Skipping breakfast and lunch and eating a large dinner means missing out on two important chances to increase your metabolism and boost the number of calories you burn. Your body treats any reduction in food intake as an impending starvation situation and prepares itself by slowing your metabolism to conserve calories. The more drastically you cut calories, the more your metabolic rate drops.
Muscle requires many calories each day to maintain itself.
The faster you lose weight through dieting alone, the more muscle tissue you lose. Every time you eat, your body's metabolism gets a temporary boost. Body Composition - You hear it over and over again, but the more muscle you have and the less fat you have, the more calories you burn each day. Every pound of muscle in your body requires 50 calories a day for maintenance. By contrast, every pound of fat only requires 2 calories per day to maintain.