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My Candy diet isn’t having the results I desire. It is, however, delicious.
This isn't an exception. Eat less.
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My Candy diet isn’t having the results I desire. It is, however, delicious.
This isn't an exception. Eat less.
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In general something being normal for humans for millennia does not mean it was healthy. It was normal to have incredibly painful teeth, probably not healthy. It was normal to die before reaching adulthood. It is entirely possible that something that was done for a long time is a healthy thing just as it is entirely possible that it was a terrible thing that we conquered with knowledge and abundance. Evidence is what…
> It was normal to have incredibly painful teeth, probably not healthy. Is this actually true? I thought archaic humans had much better dental outcomes because their diets had a small fraction of the sugars that modern diets do. Could be wrong but I was definitely under the impression that poor dental health was more a function of modern diet and not something that necessarily existed throughout history.
The amount of calories per day caught my attention, 850kcal/day with diet replacement products. I understand that with medical supervision, there is less risk of malnourishment or nutrients deficiencies. The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Looking around, I found this other study studying total diet replacement provi…
Evidence needed: define "dangerous" in terms of micromorts based on what BMR and demographics (i.e., age, BMI, FFMI, height, gender)? There are risks to ponder about how critical (e.g., time vs. dangers) it is to get to a healthy weight. If someone dangerously obese maintains hydration, electrolytes, vitamins, and enough lipids to empty the gallbladder, getting to a low adipose tissue state, resetting insulin, ghreli…
Why stop at getting rid of glucose? Add some plasma donations and orlistat. Now you've got balanced macro loss!
(don't do this)
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> Off the top of my head, fast food advertisments should be made illegal This is ridiculous. Nearly everyone I know who is overweight eats hardly any fast food. What I do see is lots of snacking throughout the day on high carb things (chips, breads, etc) and just way too many calories due to large serving sizes in both regular “slow food” restaurants and meals made at home. Fast food meals if you skip the sugared sod…
Apparently one major issue with fast food is the hyperpalatability. For example, when I visited my family in the states, I ate two double cheeseburgers at a fast food joint at 1000+ calories per burger, and I figured I could probably eat two more in that sitting without issue. In other words I ate 2000+ calories in a few minutes and could have kept going. Even one burger has more calories than I eat in a single meal.…
Where was this? A double quarter pounder BLT at McD with standard toppings is 830 calories. A McDouble is half that.
I say this as a south Asian man.
The amount of calories per day caught my attention, 850kcal/day with diet replacement products. I understand that with medical supervision, there is less risk of malnourishment or nutrients deficiencies. The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Looking around, I found this other study studying total diet replacement provi…
My doctors have always said that losing weight too quickly results in the metabolization of one's muscles and other important, healthy tissue in addition to fat. Could it be that crash dieting works narrowly to solve, for example, diabetes via the loss of fat, but has other negative consequences for the body? Maybe it's not a "doesn't work" thing, but a "collateral damage" thing or a "makes it harder to keep the weig…
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Even artificial sweetener leads to craving carbs in my case. As for the "gut punch" though, sounds like gastritis or something. Unless you're being metaphorical. For me, water helps when I'm fasting and stomach pains start.
This feeling is so intense for me that I’ve come to believe it’s something to do with the carbs and my gut microbiome changing. There’s a 1-2 week delay between changing diets and having these hunger pains start/stop that makes this feel more credible to me than insulin response changes or diet boredom. But: one should not treat N=1 subjective experiences as having any real value.
Likewise, I've noticed an effect develop with artificial sweeteners where I can have small amounts without difficulty, but if I start consuming it several times in a 48 hour span, I get cramps.
In periods where I've become addicted to carbs hunger pain is much stronger, but I've been able to keep it down for many years now. So if you're getting it intensely, your gut is probably still reactivating to its old profile.
I believe restriction in the regular diet is one way of correcting it while staying in a routine. But I have also experimented with fasting, intense exercise, hot/cold contrast in the shower, and breathing exercises, and the common theme to each is to challenge homeostasis in some fashion. Obviously there's always some danger in going too far, but if our norm is total comfort, we can definitely drop some aspect of it from time to time.
The amount of calories per day caught my attention, 850kcal/day with diet replacement products. I understand that with medical supervision, there is less risk of malnourishment or nutrients deficiencies. The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Looking around, I found this other study studying total diet replacement provi…
dumb question: how easy is it for the average person to go from an “American” diet high in addictive things like bad fats, corn syrups, processed foods, etc. etc. to a “clean” 1200kcal diet? I was under the impression it was like trying to fight drug addiction and the chances of you sustaining it and not relapsing/making up the missed calories later as near impossible for most once you’ve become addicted enough to th…
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> The general advice, even from my primary care physician, has been that anything less than 1200kcal/day is dangerous and is crash dieting. Wouldn't this advise need to keep in mind absolute height? BMI tracks the ratio between the height and weight, but it does nothing to tell the difference between a short thin person and a taller heavier (but same BMI) person. The latter which would need more calories than the for…
My understanding is that 1200 kcal is independent of height or weight. I was told that the rough calculation was based on the lower estimate of basal metabolic rate and then subtracting a couple hundred kcal. We both come from a South Asian background and discussed how the number would change for a home cooked vegetarian diet which is more nutrient dense but low in protein, and I was told that would lower it below 12…
There is no reason to avoid resistance training.