Читать книгу The Renaissance Diet 2.0 - Mike Israetel, James Hoffmann - Страница 14

A settling point is the weight your body is inclined to maintain, taking into account your current and historical dietary and activity practices. Your settling point can be very different from your genetic set point. Enough added fat or added muscle maintained for periods of months to years can permanently push your settling point above your genetic set point. In contrast, there is no convincing evidence as of this book that settling points fall permanently below genetic set points when weight is lost. The good news is that it is often the case that more overweight people have actually pushed their settling point far above their genetic set point as opposed to their having a very high genetic set point.

Muscle mass has its own independent set and settling points–some people are naturally more or less muscular regardless of diet and training, though these points are not affected as easily as those for general body\weight. Once more muscle has been gained and maintained for a year or longer, only a fraction of the original effort is needed to rebuild it if it is lost. Also, muscle takes much less effort to maintain than to build, a fact we can exploit in the construction of nutritional periodization.