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It's pretty obvious when you do long fasts. Every time I fast for more than I week, I lose several kilos doing nothing, not going to the bathroom even once except to pee.
What is your intake during the fast? Bone broth? Water? Electrolytes?
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I don't know about easier, but it's certainly more efficient.
How easy it is probably depends on your circumstances. There are infographics and whatnot out there detailing the caloric density of different kinds of food, that make it clear that, depending on the diet you already eat, you can reduce your calorie intake by vast amounts just by switching up what kinds of food you eat. But it's potentially a more expensive way to eat, and probably a more time-consuming one if you do…
Even with not microwaved but easily made, pre-made soups or veggies are easy to heat and more filing.
Even eating only snacks I can stay under 1.5k per day by just not eating anything on the side.
The trick for most people starting is to not drink your calories: switch to 0% calorie sodas and replace sugar in coffee and tea with aspartame. No fruit juice and check calories as "0% added sugar" usually mean there are a lot of calories.
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It's easier to eat less calories than exercise.
Have you tried it? I did, it's easier only for some time. After you lose about 6-7% of your body weight it's very hard to eat less, your whole behaviour changes.
Dropped 25kg (45ish lb) 3 years ago. Gained 12kg back the next 2 years which I removed during the last 6 months. Still more weight to shed but I know what works for me and what kind of effort it requires: going hungry by eating less.
Like lot of fat-logic people I used to think that exercising was required and even the only thing needed to get fit. "I'll just start exercising and be back to an healthy weight" is just a fantasy. There is no miracle way of doing it.
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asthmatic - how did you get it diagnosed after 40 years? just wondering, pure coincidence ?
I had brochitis as a child, which by adolescence and several years of treatment with inhaled steroids seemingly just settled into an adulthood of "I wheeze and my lungs just don't work well". Never saw anyone about it, just figured it was my lot. In 2012 I had a really bad lung infection that resulted in an asthma-like attack and ambulance taking me to hospital in the middle of the night. Months of tests resulted in…
Even in my earlier year of youth when I was fit I could never run a marathon. Or even 10km. But i was never diagnosed as one with Asthma. I had always felt the air was lacking "oxygen", I am now guessing may be again my big pipes is good, but small pipes are bad.
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I can't help but groan at some of the "obvious" health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around. " Calories in, calories out! " " You can't outrun a bad diet! " " Weight is lost in the kitchen! " Sure, things ultimately boil down to intake-vs-expenditure. However, it IS more complicated than that in practice . As software developers, we complain when management makes decisions based on inadequate or p…
Your point absolutely has merit. I know some, but not many, badly overweight people who exercise regularly. I know some, but not many, skinny people who never lift a finger. I was mostly trying to address the direct cause-and-effect conclusion the parent comment was making with breathing hard == losing weight
There's a lot of reverse causality in that relationship. Being badly overweight makes exercise more unpleasant and prone to cause injury.
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Also take daylight savings into account, you could get an extra hour one day a year. Thats a lot more breaths.
Supercharge your weight loss by running west.
Why is CO2 the correct answer, the answer should be energy/heat + CO2 + H2O? The "burning" of fat in oxygen to CO2 and H2O is exothermic.
From the abstract: "Most people believed that fat is converted to energy or heat, which violates the law of conservation of mass."
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Trees (and other plants) are almost entirely air and water. Very little soil gets incorporated, and almost all of that is trace minerals dissolved in the water.
Curious. I've heard this about trees. What about tomatoes? Cucumbers? etc? Or is this comment only referring to the "substance" of a plant and not its fruit(or similar)?
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I'd suspect the more exercise you do the more that number moves up, you'd be breathing harder. I'd hesitate to try and put a 'hard limit' on anything like this.
It's pretty difficult to double that number. Can you really double your metabolism without ill effect? Or without massively changing your lifestyle? The normal expectation is maybe 10-25% change. Any more than than would require things likes 8 hours of exercise per day.