Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?
gdog05@lemmy.world 13 hours agoThe big difference is the effect of a calorie for each person differs. How the body chooses to burn a calorie differs. If person A reduces their diet by 3000 calories in a week they might lose a pound. Person B might not. CICO is literally thermodynamics, you’re very right. How our bodies react to thermodynamics varies quite a bit.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What you’re describing is basically your metabolic rate. Everyone has a different one. If yours is super efficient, you need to eat less than other people.
That’s the whole story. You can still reduce calories to lose weight. It’s literally the only way.
If it’s impossible to lose weight and still eat sufficient nutrients to survive, then you are one in a million and go see a doctor. Everyone else, start adding vegetables and fiber to your meals.
gdog05@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What I’m talking about but maybe didn’t do a very good job of explaining is metabolic adaptation. It can take months before your body adjusts, before you figure out what calorie deficit is needed and it varies wildly from person to person. Our brains can burn calories to be more creative or slow down to preserve ideal body weight. Which can negate a wide amount of calorie usage. …edu.au/…/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calori…
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yep, it takes a while to figure out where your calorie intake should be, and it changes over time.
But to be clear, in no way does that mean some people can’t lose weight with a calorie deficit. It means it’s complicated to find your deficit, and you won’t ever get nice linear progress. I think a lot of weight loss problems are because people get sold on diets and expect steady results. That’s not real.
This isn’t a diet. If someone wants to be fit, they need to learn to eat like a fit person because one day they’ll be a fit person and then they’ll have to maintain that. Forever. So no keto. No carnivore. No intermittent fasting (unless you really can do that forever. I’m going on 5 years). Just eat more fiber, less calorie dense things, and find things you like that are sustainable for you.
Sorry, just realized I’m ranting. This is one of those topics that gets me going because there’s an entire industry designed to make you lose weight, gain it all back, and suck the money out of your wallet in the process. It doesn’t need to be like that. It’s not that complicated. There’s no trick to it.
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