Do you feel dumber when you are leanmaxing?

[Wallenberg]

When I'm on a low-calorie diet I feel like I lost 20 IQ points. The brain is sharper with maintenance calories.

 

[Deleted member 17791]

Are you mesomorph?

 

[Wallenberg]

Are you mesomorph?

I don't know. WHy do you ask?

 

[Matthias8272]

Yeah it just makes me more tired than I'd usually be

 

[Deleted member 17791]

I don't know. WHy do you ask?

I meant endomorph btw. I asked because they have different metabolisms. Endomorphs would have a hard time on a restrictive diet.

Im ectomorph and have relatively normal energy at around 8 - 10 percent bodyfat. It's because I just burn the food I eat. Endomorphs try to store much of the food they eat.

 

[Wallenberg]

I meant endomorph btw. I asked because they have different metabolisms. Endomorphs would have a hard time on a restrictive diet.

Im ectomorph and have relatively normal energy at around 8 - 10 percent bodyfat. It's because I just burn the food I eat. Endomorphs try to store much of the food they eat.

I can function when I'm maintaining low body fat percentage, it's just the process of getting there, i.e., deficit calories when I feel that my brain is slower than normal.

 

[Deleted member 17791]

I can function when I'm maintaining low body fat percentage, it's just the process of getting there, i.e., deficit calories when I feel that my brain is slower than normal.

Probably just your body adjusting tbh.

 

[JizzFarmer]

When I'm on a low-calorie diet I feel like I lost 20 IQ points. The brain is sharper with maintenance calories.

It should be the opposite. Your brain functions more efficiently when it uses ketone bodies as fuel instead of glucose. This is why people tend to be more alert in the fasted state.