front page? seriously? you guys don't cease to surprise.
HN has lots of people who read a diet book that taught them a Deep Secret about weight; they're bursting to share it with the unenlightened masses. So up they go.
How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
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Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#22I am more interested in his next post:
"Five years later and I am going to tell you how I managed to keep the lost weight off"
> I took some pills, specifically raspberry ketones, a multi-vitamin, and cod liver / fish oil. I went back and forth on these, and then decided to drop them. I may go back to the oils, but I think vitamins may be snake oil. It is hard to really tell though.
Vitamins are snake oil. Ok.
(And what the hell is a "dev aggregator" ?)
Calories in, calories out. Abs are 90% made in the kitchen. Go to the doctor when it hurts or feel unusual.
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#23I think he contradicts himself by saying,
"I am the same person now as I was then. I am not a better person,"
and then, a few paragraphs down...
"Mentally I was so much happier, my mood changed and I was able to deal with other things so much better."
I think when you shed weight, you change -- both physically and mentally.
I wrote an article about phantom buzzing/ringing (when you feel/hear your phone ringing when it's not) and its occurrence follows the same principle of your brain making adjustments to your body. I think the key takeaway in this article is you have to "re-program" your mind, over time, to get certain outcomes.
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#24> Within two weeks I lost ~20 pounds. More than a pound a day, I can almost not believe this. In pure fat that would be about 5000kcal a day.
Well, about twenty implies not much better than one sig fig, so I'm not willing to go more precise than around a pound/day.
A pound of fat is a mere 3500 calories. Why can he only be losing pure 100% fat? As a farmer rule of thumb a pound of raw cow is only about 1000 calories. I looked it up on google and its actually closer to 1300. Anyway the point is that your average people-of-walmart dieter probably biologically internally resembles a cow more than, say, a tank of olive oil, so I'd expect a delta-one-pound for a human to be much closer than 1300 or so input calories. If on the other hand you are a tank of biodiesel wondering how many calories of olive oil to add to weight one more pound, then sure it'll take 3500, but us mammals are more "a bit over a thousand cal per pound" in overall bulk average. Not this 3500 foolishness.
Finally maybe TMI but at the fattest weight I was ever at, given my height, a basal metabolic rate calculator estimated me at around 2500 calories just laying around doing nothing, like in a coma. But I like long distance hikes and stuff like that and even just housework burns more than the catatonic basal estimate. So I can easily see 3500 cal going out per day, cutting intake back to a "mere" 2200 calories per day coming in, net big mammal carcass equivalent of 1300 cal per pound, ta da, loss of a pound a day still eating a chezeburger for dinner.
Its quite achievable.
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#253/4 of the way through I thought I might be reading a big ad. But I'm glad this guy is doing well anyway.
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#26I am more interested in his next post: "Five years later and I am going to tell you how I managed to keep the lost weight off" > I took some pills, specifically raspberry ketones, a multi-vitamin, and cod liver / fish oil. I went back and forth on these, and then decided to drop them. I may go back to the oils, but I think vitamins may be snake oil. It is hard to really tell though. Vitamins are snake oil. Ok. (And w…
Agreed up until calories in, calories out. I know what you mean, but that way of thinking is quite dated. It's clear these days that the macronutrient composition of the diet also needs to be taken seriously.
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#27He doesn't know how but he knows he loses weight by dieting and exercise, link bait title. Furthermore, what he describes is a typical low-carb diet which works by suppressing your immune system (my experience with a low-carb diet, and the experiences of most people I know who have done a low-carb diet for long enough). After burning all your fat, you will get sick as hell (I had a 1 month fever at my lowest weight b…
How low did your body fat percentage get down to? I've been 'mostly paleo-ish' for two years. I know people who have been strict on the lifestyle. There are only health-gains talked about. By low carb, do you mean you avoided vegetable carbs too? Did you try "no wheat/gluten/processed foods" but still a metric tonne of veggies and non-lean meats?
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#28He doesn't know how but he knows he loses weight by dieting and exercise, link bait title. Furthermore, what he describes is a typical low-carb diet which works by suppressing your immune system (my experience with a low-carb diet, and the experiences of most people I know who have done a low-carb diet for long enough). After burning all your fat, you will get sick as hell (I had a 1 month fever at my lowest weight b…
How low did your body fat percentage get down to? I've been 'mostly paleo-ish' for two years. I know people who have been strict on the lifestyle. There are only health-gains talked about. By low carb, do you mean you avoided vegetable carbs too? Did you try "no wheat/gluten/processed foods" but still a metric tonne of veggies and non-lean meats?
I did paleo for 9 months. No wheat, gluten. Veggies, some sweet potatoes and nuts, lots of meat (lean and non-lean). I lost 30 pounds (I wasn't really overweight). I don't know my body fat % at that time but I pretty sure it was lower than 15%. Exercising 3 times a week (Weight training).
I had carb craving all-day long even after eating 2000+ calories. I was between 50g and 100g of carb per day (as recommended by Mark's Daily Apple and some others). At the end I feel bad, always tired (exact opposite than at the beginning) and I got very sick for a month (first time in my life).
I'm now eating fruits and protein (no wheat, gluten, processed food) and sometimes dairy. I feel far better for more than a year now (without fluctuations like with paleo). I've gained some weight (because my metabolism was really low) but I'm now dropping weight without any change. It is a long-term diet I'm not expecting to drop 10 pounds in a month (I've tried paleo again for a week recently and didn't even lost a pound BTW).
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#29I am more interested in his next post: "Five years later and I am going to tell you how I managed to keep the lost weight off" > I took some pills, specifically raspberry ketones, a multi-vitamin, and cod liver / fish oil. I went back and forth on these, and then decided to drop them. I may go back to the oils, but I think vitamins may be snake oil. It is hard to really tell though. Vitamins are snake oil. Ok. (And w…
Agreed up until calories in, calories out. I know what you mean, but that way of thinking is quite dated. It's clear these days that the macronutrient composition of the diet also needs to be taken seriously.
I agree as well with your point.
Re: How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
#30> 20 pounds in first 2 weeks...
> vegetables... high protein... no sugar...
> purposefully didn’t start exercising yet...
> Gary Taubes ...
I've seen exactly this a few times. None of those people were very fat to begin with.