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After reading through all of these threads posted by or supplied by diet theorists, I love having an opportunity to share a success story about someone who has reliably used proven, common sense methods to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
For those of you who claim that only two percent of the human population can reduce weight by creating a consistent calorie deficit, I'd like to share that I run into a disproportionate number of that two percent all the time, this guy included.
I'm in I suppose both groups. I find it annoying and cumbersome to always pay that much attention to what I eat. I'd rather just watch my intake periodically and lose what I gain by not paying attention the majority of the time. That is to say, I find it fairly easy to lose weight by restricting calories. Then I get lazy and stop paying attention and overeat and gain it back. Then I lose it again. I'm never all that diligent about it. Even when I'm actually consciously making an effort to restrict calories if something comes up where I want go out and have five beers and a 1,500 calorie burger and fries at a bar, no big deal. That'll set me back the better part of a week but if it's what I want to do it's what I want to do. It's just just not something I can do regularly if I want to lose weight, so figure out what's more important to you. Sometimes its beer and burgers. If it is too often, you're not going to lose weight.
Count me as part of that 'supposed' 2% - lost 30 pounds by restricting calories 20 years ago and kept it off. Even managed to drop another 10 recently. I am the lightest and healthiest I ever been in my entire adult life.
I think that 2% figure is ridiculous and made up. There is probably some article somewhere on the internets that will state it as fact after some study, but I just don't believe. Diets don't fail because of calorie restriction, it's pretty much the only way they succeed!
Diets fail because people are human being with wants who have difficulty separating a want from a need. I'm hungry - I need sustenance. I want chips - I eat the whole bag.... No longer hungry!
After reading through all of these threads posted by or supplied by diet theorists, I love having an opportunity to share a success story about someone who has reliably used proven, common sense methods to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
For those of you who claim that only two percent of the human population can reduce weight by creating a consistent calorie deficit, I'd like to share that I run into a disproportionate number of that two percent all the time, this guy included.
Good article. I'd like to read more. I think it's interesting that he touches on doing intermittent fasting but doesn't go into any details about it. Seems he's not purely about calories. I definitely have the same thought process as him in that I think it's behavioral. I also think one thing he doesn't go into too much depth about, but he does touch on, is how hard it is when you get older and you are sedentary, how very little calories you get just to keep your weight in check. I'm 54 years old now, spend 10 hours a day predominantly sitting. The calories I can eat to maintain would make most people cry. Those same amount of calories would have given me a significant weight loss just 15 years ago. This is the part that is the most hardest to deal with for me.
Good article. I'd like to read more. I think it's interesting that he touches on doing intermittent fasting but doesn't go into any details about it. Seems he's not purely about calories. I definitely have the same thought process as him in that I think it's behavioral. I also think one thing he doesn't go into too much depth about, but he does touch on, is how hard it is when you get older and you are sedentary, how very little calories you get just to keep your weight in check. I'm 54 years old now, spend 10 hours a day predominantly sitting. The calories I can eat to maintain would make most people cry. Those same amount of calories would have given me a significant weight loss just 15 years ago. This is the part that is the most hardest to deal with for me.
The authors point is that he doesn't snack outside of defined meal windows. Most of the extra calories sneak in from between meal or late-night snacks. My calorie intake from meals almost never exceeds 1400-1500 calories each day. Whether or not I keep to within/under 2,000 depends entirely on what I do for snacks. If I need to lose weight, I shut down the snacking for a few weeks and presto-magic, it all realigns.
The only ways I know how to lose weight and have consistently done so is by eating less, eating right and exercise. Cut out snacks completely and if you need to snack, do it with healthy alternatives like baby carrots or dried mushrooms. I go to gym twice a week, run on the treadmill and do weights.
Eat Less.
Move more.
Permanently.
It really is the only successful way of losing and keeping off weight.Everything else is quackery.
There are many different ways of doing the "Eat Less" part.
Also, eating a low carb diet is critical if you're a diabetic.
If I ate X number of calories of bacon and the same number of calories of fruit, my glucometer would tell me I should not have eaten that fruit.
The increased use of insulin to combat the high blood sugars caused by eating the fruit would also likely defeat the "move more" part.
Also, don't forget that insulin acts as anabolic steroid. It fattens you. So, on one hand, you trying to lose/control weight, as any diabetic should, while you take drug that gains weight.
To add to this:
Eat Less.
Move more.
Permanently.
which is perfectly true, watch water and salt intake. As you are mostly what? Water. You weigh what? Water. You drank that gallon of water today, what do you think happened to your weight? Add to this salty this or that and sure not, you didn't pee it all out - and some more. So you, actually, gained weight by simply following ever present "drink tons of water" craze.
The increased use of insulin to combat the high blood sugars caused by eating the fruit would also likely defeat the "move more" part.
This would be the case for many non-diabetics as well. The insulin in those cases would be produced by the body. Non-diabetics also get blood sugar spikes, the difference is how long the blood sugar stays high. In either case, the insulin needed to cover the wrong foods will hinder weight loss.
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