How To Lose Weight And Influence People
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How To Lose Weight And Influence People
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#2> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds.
Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly.
Paleo and keto types call this a "signing bonus". It's generally not an indicator of the long term trend because there's not much of your body mass tied up this way. When people are overweight, it's usually fat. And fat is a stupidly dense store of energy compared to the glycogen/water mechanism.
Athletes in weight-class sports (boxing, powerlifting, wrestling, weightlifting etc) have known about carbohydrate and sodium tricks for manipulating water weight for a long time.
All the matters is: can you impose a long term deficit? Whether by paleo, keto or any other dietary method, the sole long term determinant of average body mass is net caloric balance.
I wrote about this simple physical fact last year [1], which prompted what one friend called "the diet riot". It was good for lulz then. I bet it will be again.
In the past year I've followed a diet called "Eating Less" (Intermittent Fasting, to be all trendy about it[2]). So far this has put me down about 30kg from my peak weight -- approximately 65lb.
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#3> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds. Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly. Paleo…
Read The Hacker's Diet a while ago, and it seemed reasonable to my old control-systems training. What's the current sort of counter-argument to the abstraction presented there?
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#4> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds. Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly. Paleo…
I am not a dietician by any stretch, but this 'net calorie' business seems really unlikely to me. Cars have different gas mileage; i doubt I am shitting out 0 calories, etc. Ketosis is a real thing and people do shed a shit ton of weight getting into that state; all of these things basically invalidate 'long term deficit' as the sole coeffecient into what is likely an incredibly complex equation only barely understood.
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#5> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds. Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly. Paleo…
Read The Hacker's Diet a while ago, and it seemed reasonable to my old control-systems training. What's the current sort of counter-argument to the abstraction presented there?
The counter argument seems to be that ketosis is somehow magically exempt from the laws of physics.
One of those blog posts sparked exactly such a discussion -- that the body was "too complex" to be governed by mere physics.
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#6> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds. Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly. Paleo…
> Then I went to Kauai for a week and gained 10 pounds
Is probably ~8lbs water. I'd be amazed if someone could gain 10lbs of fat in a week. That clocks in at about 50k total calories?
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#7> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds. Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly. Paleo…
I am not a dietician by any stretch, but this 'net calorie' business seems really unlikely to me. Cars have different gas mileage; i doubt I am shitting out 0 calories, etc. Ketosis is a real thing and people do shed a shit ton of weight getting into that state; all of these things basically invalidate 'long term deficit' as the sole coeffecient into what is likely an incredibly complex equation only barely understoo…
Read my longer blog post. I go over the whole matter.
The tl;dr is that ketosis is not exempt from the laws of physics.
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#8> After the first week, which is always the hardest, I'd lost 10 pounds. Dropping carbohydrates from the diet causes a drop in retained water. For instance, some energy is stored in the muscles as glycogen, which binds with water on an approximately 1-to-3 basis. Each gram of glycogen binds ~3g of water; so when you cut carb intake and begin to break down stored glycogen, you unsurprisingly lose weight quickly. Paleo…
> Then I went to Kauai for a week and gained 10 pounds Is probably ~8lbs water. I'd be amazed if someone could gain 10lbs of fat in a week. That clocks in at about 50k total calories?
The rule of thumb is 3500 kcals / lb. So 10lbs of fat would be nearly 35,000 kcals, a daily net caloric surplus (not caloric intake, surplus) of 5,000 kcals.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not a dietician by any stretch, but this 'net calorie' business seems really unlikely to me. Cars have different gas mileage; i doubt I am shitting out 0 calories, etc. Ketosis is a real thing and people do shed a shit ton of weight getting into that state; all of these things basically invalidate 'long term deficit' as the sole coeffecient into what is likely an incredibly complex equation only barely understoo…
Read my longer blog post. I go over the whole matter. The tl;dr is that ketosis is not exempt from the laws of physics.
No offence but your post is overly simplistic and not in anyway convincing that your actual thesis is a complete picture of what is going on.
It is undeniably true that calories in vs calories out is a driving factor, it is not however the only factor.
Your article shows how you think about diet/weight, and is not really reflective of any strong scientific understanding, and, in my opinion, needlessly disregards "… insulin! Starvation mode! Carbs! Zones! That study I saw written up in the New York Times!", when there is actually something here, or atleast potentially here that is also a driving force in weight.
edited for politeness/accuracy
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#10Devils Advocate Time.
Technically I'm morbidly obese. I'm 6'3" and I weigh in just shy of 300lbs. This shocks most people as I don't look like someone who weighs close to 300lbs although I'm very obviously overweight. I'm working hard to lose weight purely to prevent myself from dying young so that my son has a Dad he can grow old with.
In the mean time, let me dispel a myth: Fat != Lazy
I have absolutely no doubt that I will have more energy when I'm a healthier weight however I sleep well, I feel good when I wake up, I can maintain focus at a consistently high level throughout my typical 14 hour work day and I still have plenty of energy to chase after my 2 year old boy for a couple of hours in the evening when I get home. I have bags of confidence and as far as I'm concerned, I'm successful.
Being overweight isn't always indicative of laziness, failure or a lack of discipline. Sure you're better off being a healthy weight but beating yourself up for being overweight is torture. Take responsibility for your weight and health, commit to doing something positive to fix it and in the mean time just get on with enjoying life.