Frankie has lost 10 pounds through exercise and diet, but now she has stalled in her weight loss. It seems that doing the same things she has for the last 2 months to lose weight is not working anymore. How could this be explained?
a) decrease in leptin
b) hypothalamus
c) basal metabolic rate
d) set point theory
d) set point theory
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