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What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by Kaibeezy »

vajenetehais wrote: post #95
octamer wrote: post #4

Interesting review (that first graph in particular is definitely non-obvious to me), but under the diet section I think it understates the current body of research regarding low-carb/keto diets - some studies have begun to show energy expenditure[1] and insulin[2] benefits that uniquely exist with low-carb. I think we'll find out soon enough that a lower-carb approach, given the current American diet, does definitive…

I lost 20% of my wheight with this diet (under 20g carbs daily), in 1 year. my fat ratio was too high, now it's good. I would never eat carbs again... Benefits are really great: mood, energy (no peak or bottom), clear mind (no dizzy when hungry or full), actually never hungry (my stomach never scream), full very fast (fat will make you full fast). Yes sometimes i would like to eat a cake. I did it once. there was too…

“made me sick”

Convincing myself a particular food is disgusting has been an effective way to cut it from my diet.

Started with donuts. Horrible greasy dough blobs, dripping with artificially colored sticky, bug-collecting sugar slime. Blehhhh. (Unless it’s hot out of the fat at Bob’s or Leonard’s, then it’s something completely different.)

Next up was fries/chips. Horrid frozen potatoes coated in preservatives, sugar and salt, then boiled in rancid grease. (Unless it’s the Anstruther or Fochabers chipper, local potatoes, barely fried, mashed potato insides.)

Sweetened drinks are on the block now. May as well inject that lab-made carb goo straight into my pancreas, let those guys fight it out.

Fruit juices have been tough. I’ve been doing a trick I saw in Zurich, which is serve the only the best, fresh squeezed juice, but in a shot glass.

Damn though, I like a bowl of cereal (unsweetened, whole grain) at midnight. Will back it off to a small glass.

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by atom-morgan »

barry-cotter wrote: post #75
atom-morgan wrote: post #33

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> You will no longer be able to eat until you are full, ever again. Wrong. I just ate and I'm very full. I could even fuck off and eat like shit more often than I do but I choose not to. I'm 6'0" about ~175lbs/80kg. And yet I often have people approach me in the gym to ask questions, advice, etc: https://www.instagram.com/adamjmorgan/ . It's possible to eat until you're full and still look good. -Signed, former chubb…

I’m happy for you that you can eat whatever you want and not put on weight, or put on very little. My wife is the same. I’m not. I lost over 10kg for our wedding and put it on again quickly thereafter. Everybody has a set point weight that their body will naturally return to. This isn’t to deny exercise or changes in diet or environment can’t make lasting changes. Americans who move to Shanghai lose weight because th…

> I’m happy for you that you can eat whatever you want and not put on weight

I never said that.

I'm very meticulous about my diet and I'd say I'm more disciplined about it than 95%+ people. For that I can "even fuck off and eat like shit more often than I do".

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by barry-cotter »

atom-morgan wrote: post #152
barry-cotter wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m happy for you that you can eat whatever you want and not put on weight, or put on very little. My wife is the same. I’m not. I lost over 10kg for our wedding and put it on again quickly thereafter. Everybody has a set point weight that their body will naturally return to. This isn’t to deny exercise or changes in diet or environment can’t make lasting changes. Americans who move to Shanghai lose weight because th…

> I’m happy for you that you can eat whatever you want and not put on weight I never said that. I'm very meticulous about my diet and I'd say I'm more disciplined about it than 95%+ people. For that I can "even fuck off and eat like shit more often than I do".

Forgive me for having misinterpreted you. If that’s your position I don’t see much daylight between your position and the person you were originally responding to though. You have a diet to which you stick not quite religiously. They say you need to stick to a diet religiously to lose weight and keep it off. The difference between your respective positions seems nugatory.

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by 0-_-0 »

sridca wrote: post #150
nemasu wrote: post #104

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I did a water fast for 2 weeks. It was...kind of amazing actually, recommend to try it at least once if you can. One tip: when you are done and are ready to break it, introduce food very slowly, I didn't and it was unpleasant to say the least.

> One tip: when you are done and are ready to break it, introduce food very slowly Is that relevant even when doing a 3-5 days fast?

After 3 days I was OK with just eating normally (or even excessively TBH)

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by atom-morgan »

barry-cotter wrote: post #153
atom-morgan wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I’m happy for you that you can eat whatever you want and not put on weight I never said that. I'm very meticulous about my diet and I'd say I'm more disciplined about it than 95%+ people. For that I can "even fuck off and eat like shit more often than I do".

Forgive me for having misinterpreted you. If that’s your position I don’t see much daylight between your position and the person you were originally responding to though. You have a diet to which you stick not quite religiously. They say you need to stick to a diet religiously to lose weight and keep it off. The difference between your respective positions seems nugatory.

I said the exact opposite actually. I stick to my diet religiously. That's why I believe I'm more disciplined than 95% of people and why I have the freedom to deviate occasionally if I wanted to to eat junk food.

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by Flenser »

What I'd like to know is if there are any studies into whether the frequency with which a person weighs themself can have an effect on weight loss? The theory being the quicker feedback would lead to quicker results by motivating more change and making it easier for the person to stay motivated and correlate changes in lifestyle with weight loss.

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by john61 »

pluma wrote: post #139
john61 wrote: post #76

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> Eating pizza, Soda and so on are awesome It depends what you are used to eat. A few years ago I would have agreed that pizza and Soda is great. But today after changing my live style I cook for myself fresh vegetables from CSA and small bio farms I do not like pizza and all the crap any more. That goes so far that I can not go to restaurants anymore, because 95% of them serve crap for my todays taste.

> That goes so far that I can not go to restaurants anymore I would call that a direct impact to quality of life (if only because you're missing out on the social experience), which is the exact point the GP made.

There are some restaurants with high quality food. And I enjoy them. After all my quality of live is way better than before. My social experience improved because I met interesting people with the same interest / taste at my local Foodcoop for example.

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by tracker1 »

_xerxes_ wrote: post #31
tracker1 wrote: post #11

To me, it would seem that there's a couple things that aren't considered in most of these studies. A lot of them have a lot of controls in place for the starting size/weight range of the individuals. Given this, and the change in hormone (particularly insulin) response it's not always the same advice depending on how overweight you are, how much you are showing insulin resistance or elevated/deflated insulin response…

Every annual physical and every work-related health exam I have had here in the US has included some kind of fasting glucose test.

An A1C test will only show problems after you've gone through a cycle of your body resisting insulin and your pancreas being overworked (resting insulin 4-7x normal) and then your pancreas wears out (damaged beta cell production) and then your resting glucose rises. This process can take many years. A resting insulin test will show resting insulin rising years before an A1C test shows a problem.

Re: What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies

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Post by kwanbix »

rdm_blackhole wrote: post #64

A couple of years ago I found myself weighing 250lbs. Basically morbidly obese. I decided to change that. I went through all the food I bought during the week and decided to do some culling. I removed anything with sugar and replaced it with Stevia. Removed the soft drinks, alcohol, and carbs. I follow this diet 6 days a week. One day a week, I indulge myself: a pizza or burrito or have a few beers. I also go to the…

> I also go to the gym 5 times a week. Run 5k in 25 minutes plus one hour of weight lifting. Nothing to intense mind you.

You consider running 5 kilometers a day, and doing one hour of weight lifting to be non intense? wow.

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