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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 krageon »

legohead wrote: post #90

I have a friend who I watched try a bunch of diet systems. Pills from amazon that she researched. Trying to not eat as much. Calorie counting. More expensive pills. Doing one of those "we send you all your meals" programs. Nothing worked or was even close. Maybe she'd lose 5 pounds and then immediately gain it back. Finally she went to a clinic. The Dr. gave her a prescription to phentermine and she had to show up ev…

I'm going to go out on a limb and say most people are probably aware that a substituted amphetamine will help you not eat.

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

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Post by borski »

Negitivefrags wrote: post #48
atom-morgan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

It’s great that your body is in a place where you are able to do that, but let me ask you something. Have you ever been more than 130kg? I have, and getting down to being no longer overweight requires a substantial mindset change. It’s extremely unhelpful to talk to people who have been as large as I have about how you can eat how you want and still feel full. Maybe you can lose the weight and still few full, but it’…

I’ve been 118kg, and I’m 5’9’’.

I started a keto diet 3 months ago and have lost 33 lbs. here’s the interesting part: I definitely feel full when I eat now, because fat and protein are just that much more satiating. It takes less food to make me feel full. Provided it’s high in fat.

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

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Post by Jaruzel »

sridca wrote: post #81
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…

Fasting is the ultimate weight loss tool. It also facilitates (muscle) growth and healing.

It also can put a strain on your organs if you are not too healthy. Consult a Doctor before trying it.

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

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Post by sridca »

Jaruzel wrote: post #93
sridca wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fasting is the ultimate weight loss tool. It also facilitates (muscle) growth and healing.

It also can put a strain on your organs if you are not too healthy. Consult a Doctor before trying it.

Any references for that claim (assuming 5 days water fast or less)?

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

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Post by vajenetehais »

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 much sugar, and it made me sick off it, i'm vaccinated!

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

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Post by kstenerud »

Negitivefrags wrote: post #54
chongli wrote: post #40

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True success is the acceptance that, no, your life will be worse in very real ways. You will no longer be able to just eat whenever you feel like it. You will no longer be able to eat until you are full, ever again. None of these things are true. With a good diet and exercise, you will feel better and be happier, with way more energy. That makes your life better, not worse. As another commenter mentioned, abstaining…

> None of these things are true. With a good diet and exercise, you will feel better and be happier, with way more energy. That makes your life better, not worse. I never said your life won’t be better overall. I said it will be worse in real ways. Eating pizza, Soda and so on are awesome. There is a reason these foods are popular. No amount of pretending is going to make that not true, and a life where you could eat…

I moved off those a few years ago. It was painful for a year and a half. Now I can't even eat them anymore; they taste vile. It was the salt and sugar that made them addictive, but now that I'm off them, I can finally taste the rest of the ingredients that went into them, and they taste terrible.

Re: 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 coldtea »

Negitivefrags wrote: post #54
chongli wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True success is the acceptance that, no, your life will be worse in very real ways. You will no longer be able to just eat whenever you feel like it. You will no longer be able to eat until you are full, ever again. None of these things are true. With a good diet and exercise, you will feel better and be happier, with way more energy. That makes your life better, not worse. As another commenter mentioned, abstaining…

> None of these things are true. With a good diet and exercise, you will feel better and be happier, with way more energy. That makes your life better, not worse. I never said your life won’t be better overall. I said it will be worse in real ways. Eating pizza, Soda and so on are awesome. There is a reason these foods are popular. No amount of pretending is going to make that not true, and a life where you could eat…

>Eating pizza, Soda and so on are awesome

In a teenage-like definition of awesome.

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

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Post by ramblerman »

hnuser1234 wrote: post #63
flukus wrote: post #42

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> The hardest part of dieting is realising that in order to keep it off, you will have to continue like that forever. Why would that be? To lose why your are taking a net negative mass balance, once the weight is lost you probably can't go back to the exact diet you had (otherwise you wouldn't need to lose weight) but an mass neutral one should suffice to keep you at the same weight.

If you are a 300 pound person and want to be a 150 pound person, you have to eat like a 150 pound person. Forever.

You are both correct, not sure why OP is downvoted though.

If your caloric requirements are 2400 calories a day. You might eat at a deficit for your diet, say 1700. And after that you can eat 2400 again.

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

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Post by Noumenon72 »

oska wrote: post #72
Negitivefrags wrote: post #23

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The hardest part of dieting is realising that in order to keep it off, you will have to continue like that forever. In the back of your mind, you want to think that the diet is temporary. Once you have lost the weight, you can go back to eating all the great tasting foods that you ate before. True success is the acceptance that, no, your life will be worse in very real ways. You will no longer be able to just eat whe…

> The hardest part of dieting is realising that in order to keep it off, you will have to continue like that forever. I'm going to reverse this. For me, the idea of having to eat what an obese person consumes every day to maintain their weight is an exhausting one. I think it's actually fairly easy to be a normal weight and only consume the amount of food necessary to maintain that weight and much harder to consume t…

I think you're correct assuming you're eating a healthy diet made of stuff like oatmeal, beans, and chicken. It's hard to keep enough of that on hand and hard to fit it all in your stomach.

It's easy to consume 3500 calories in a day in cheese curls or going out to eat ribs.

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