Can I rely only on a calorie calculator when weight does not fall?
A calorie number is a tracking tool, but abrupt restriction can lower metabolism and energy. Review weak digestion, phlegm-fluid, blood stasis, and qi-blood circulation with your individual response.
A calorie calculator objectively records intake, but people do not use the same intake identically. Sudden restriction can make the body conserve energy; Western medicine may explain plateaus and fatigue through thyroid hormones and basal metabolism.
Korean medicine describes weak digestion and energy transport as allowing nutrients to remain as phlegm-fluid, and checks whether blood-stasis circulation is also present.
Use the calculator as a reference rather than fasting from the number alone. Record meals, digestion, energy, and activity, and consider constitution-based support for stagnant function according to your goal and condition without assuming an outcome.
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