Do you often feel that  when you are working with sweat and blood to lose weight and get lean, your body is putting up a stronger fight and throwing all your efforts literally down the drain, by adjusting the metabolism in such a way that even with exercise and diet, losing weight becomes an uphill task. This is called as “metabolic compensation,” and it’s a  survival mechanism through which the body maintains its current weight. Weight loss materializes when there is a calorie deficit which means fewer calories come in and more gets utilized to release energy. When you workout more and reduce calories through food to slim down, the body detects this as a famine situation and brings about adaptive mechanisms, including slowing down of metabolism, where it burns fewer calories to maintain the fat stores and current weight. Think  about it, if metabolic compensation didn’t kick in, losing weight would have been a cakewalk for everyone! The more you try to slash down calories or melt the fat away, the more the body would try to compensate by adjusting metabolism. Human body has evolved through thousands of years to conserve and store fight and resist loss of fat. In metabolic compensation, the total daily energy expenditure including resting metabolic rate and non-resting energy expenditure slump down. In such a scenario, to override metabolic compensation in order to lose significant weight, we need to find ways to revv up metabolism and speed it up...