Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Importance of Tongue Fat

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:27 PM UTC

rukittenme wrote: post #52

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #10

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I'd just like to chime in as someone who has lost and kept off about half his bodyweight, that yeah, losing significant amounts of weight is a very demanding undertaking. It requires a significant lifestyle change, large investments of time, is emotionally and cognitively draining, and to top it all off does not positively impact your quality of life nearly as much as is touted. To be successful at it requires a leve…

> I track every calorie I eat Why?? > and weigh myself everyday Why???? Every week AT MOST. And even then, TRACK THE LONG TERM TREND. > I can't keep food in my house Why?????????????????? YOU NEED FOOD TO SURVIVE. You need food in your house to PREPARE MEALS that YOU PLAN. A caloric deficit WILL lower your ENERGY LEVELS ... BUT you are NOT REQUIRED to be HUNGRY because of it. ---- Don't listen to me. I'm not your doc…

Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:32 PM UTC

rukittenme wrote: post #56

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #54

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> Caloric deficit == weight reduction. Doesn't matter your physiology. True. This is the one piece of weight loss advice that multiple scientific disciplines agree on. However, being true does not make it easy .

Did you miss the part where I describe how to make it easier? Did you miss the part where I criticize diet culture from preaching starvation as some sort of virtue. > If you tell someone they need to eat less to lose weight (which is what almost every diet does) then, yes, it will be hard to maintain.

Post by rukittenme » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #63

rukittenme wrote: post #56

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Did you miss the part where I describe how to make it easier? Did you miss the part where I criticize diet culture from preaching starvation as some sort of virtue. > If you tell someone they need to eat less to lose weight (which is what almost every diet does) then, yes, it will be hard to maintain.

Yes. your advice is not significantly different than common advice on how to make it easy, and my personal experience with trying many, many things is that it is never actually easy.

Post by at_a_remove » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:36 PM UTC

verisimilitude wrote: post #2

I'm a dentist who regularly treats OSA with dental appliances; they work by posturing the mandible forward with a maxillary and mandibular (two-arch) device as a way to increase the cross sectional area of the posterior airway, reducing apneic events -- but it is important to know that the gold standard remains the positive airway pressure (CPAP) device. I would also like to point out that I see an incredible amount…

Post by lazyasciiart » Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 6:44 PM UTC

john_moscow wrote: post #41

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #10

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I'd just like to chime in as someone who has lost and kept off about half his bodyweight, that yeah, losing significant amounts of weight is a very demanding undertaking. It requires a significant lifestyle change, large investments of time, is emotionally and cognitively draining, and to top it all off does not positively impact your quality of life nearly as much as is touted. To be successful at it requires a leve…

Some bits of personal advice: 1. Try eating more vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, coleslaw, but watch for the sauces). They do a wonderful job a filling the stomach, but they would give you like 20x less calories than bacon or fries. 2. The weight you see on the scale is a combination of your fat, liquids retained by the body, food in your pipeline, etc. Based on my personal experience, the non-fat part (that goes aw…