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It's not a bias it's a fact. My shirts are way more loose on me and I've been walking an average of 15,000 steps a day. What's it to you anyway? Are you upset someone's making a valid criticism about American transportation and eating habits?
Because it's a week lol you're talking about losing water from sweating, stored sugars in muscles from exercising, and a teensy bit of fat loss. you haven't "lost a lot" you're just on vacation
what's it to me? I like to tell people when they're wrong in the internet. you said something stupid. hello.
lifestyle change and public transit are great but you're just on vacation. and this is coming from someone who lived over a decade in the Americas and Asia both.
Your diet does make a real difference, more than you credit for in your reply. In university I had pizza almost every day for a month, I gained 15 lbs (7 kg) and had a way flabbier stomach. I stopped doing that and tried to eat healthier, incorporating salad with my meals, and in just about a week I started noticing it going away, and I was back to where I was before in 3 months.
It wouldn't surprise me too much to see how a body would react noticeably to a drastic change from a sedentary, highly processed carbohydrate diet and lifestyle to an active, more balanced one. Everyone's body is different of course so it won't always be the case, but to me the OP's claims seem far from impossible. Japan still has its share of oily foodstuff, but the average portion is tiny compared to the US.
Cool, all of that within a week?
There is no chance there is a visible change from a week of eating salads, no matter how fast your metabolism is.
If you look at yourself regularly and pay attention you can see your body change pretty rapidly. I've specifically watched my body bulking up on its own before burning those stored calories to build muscle and there's a clear cycle of noticing a bit more pudge a few days before I suddenly make a big jump in cycling distance or how much I can lift (and the pudge also goes away at the same time)
Not. In. A. Week.
If you stop eating for a week you can lose a cool 7kg of a lot more than just water mass. Get off your high (uninformed) horse
Read the original post ffs. They said "i ate better and walked a bunch". Not "starved myself for a week".
Yes, in less than a week even! Try it sometime. Its really cool to watch your body adjust and see just how much control you have over your body!
If you don't regularly exercise and start exercising 5 days a week you will see the changes in your own body after about a week, you might see a small change on the scale after 2 weeks and after 4 weeks someone close to you should be able to see the changes in your body, and after 12 weeks someone you don't see often should be able to see the changes in your body. Since you see yourself every day and you can feel how your body feels you can see the change very quickly
You aren't going to "slim down" in a week no matter what you do. Read the freaking post too instead of jumping in with "excercise 5 times a week". They said "I moved to Japan, ate better and walked around for a week and I got noticeably slimmer". That's not a true statement, simple as.
Actually the person you responded to in this thread (/u/[email protected]) shared a lived experience where they could observe changes in their body after just a week of drastic diet improvement, just as I'm sharing my own lived experiences where I can observe changes in my body related to diet and activity in just a week, while you're just saying "Not. In. A. Week."
I'll just close by repeating myself: Try it sometime! Its really cool to watch your body adjust and see just how much control you have over your body!
People will argue about anything on the internet, just like lying.
I can lose 10lbs in 3 days if i quit drinking beer. 10 lbs is definitely noticeable. It’s definitely not a real change, just not being super bloated, but noticeable.
You're drinking over 11k calories a day in beer?
You realize the human body contains more than just fat right?
These fucking guys? Amirite? Sheesh…
I am, yes. What are you suggesting he'd be losing instead? Water weight? If it's that, you can lose that without ceasing drinking beer at all. It seemed to me that the implication was the fella could lose 10 pounds that would stay off by stopping alcohol consumption, which water weight would not.
Is there something else l am missing?
Yeah
It’s a bet I’ve won several times. Feeling like you have too much money?
I don't understand what you're asking me.
An average male adult will burn round about 2000kcal/day, which comes down to 2kg of fat per week (that's 4.4 lbs in freedom units). To burn through 10 punds in three days, you'd have to finish an Ironman every day. And all that's assuming that your calorie intake is zero, nada, niente. So if you're loosing 10 pounds in three days, you are either an exceptional athlete or you're just peeing a lot. That's also the problem with all these "loose 10kg in 2 weeks" diets: What you're loosing is water, not fat. And as soon as you end the diet it's a matter of days to regain that weight .
That’s exactly what i said, just not like an asshole. And i am a pretty consistent athlete. GFY! Happy new year!
I'm not sure where exactly I said something assholy. If I did, I'm sorry as that was not my intention. GFY and a happy new year to you too, whatever that means.
GFY is 'go fuck yourself' most likely. Classy.
Edit from douchehorn: It's good there was no class intended, because there was none.
Lol. Maybe you can help me out once more, as I'm a bit confused here, maybe it's a cultural thing. Is it normal for Americans to throw around with swearwords while believing the others are impertinent, or is it just a chemicalprophet problem?
It does not seem uncommon for guys who are friendly with one another to throw insults at one another in a non-serious manner. That's not really the relationship I have with my friends, but it is a thing. I'm not aware of that being much of a thing without some degree of established rapport though. He could have just been doing friendly ribbing as he said, but I think it's more likely that he decided he was more annoyed at me than at you.
All in good fun. No offense intended. You just did the math and i was winging it so i was ribbing you. Also, no class intended. <—for that other elitist douchehorn
I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying their experiences on a one week vacation are irrelevant to the broader lifestyle differences between cultures. its like no one in here has taken a statistics course. it was just dumb to bring it up at all
Yes, and that is visibly noticeable on many people.
When I switch from bulk to cut the cut starts to take effect like almost immediately, and I slim down significantly within a few days. I know it's mostly glycogen and water, but it physically looks very different after the water wooshes out of your body and your muscles become more visible.
(Also, it's not exactly sweat, it's that higher glycogen levels are bound to water molecules, which get released and can actually be used by the body or discarded as excess as the body seeks an equilibrium.)
it's not about whether its noticeable. it's about whether or not it's attributable to lifestyle differences between cultures or if a person is just being extra active on vacation and wanted to talk about their vacation online
Somewhat unrelated but I 100% thought your uname said "TapewormTraveler" and thought "well this guy would know a thing or two about travel and weight loss" before my brain corrected it. I need coffee lol.
they could be in their in 20s
Would someone do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies??
I walk an average of 15k steps on a slow day. Before I got promoted out of the shipping dept I used to do 30k/day before I left work, then still had to run errands and do things, now it's usually more like 10k-15k at work (and some bodyweight squats while I stand at my desk because why not) and go do things. All of this (and here's the part that will shock you) was in America. You don't have to be in Japan to walk, even if you don't walk for work there's always "exercising."
Basically you're saying "usually at home I'm sedentary as fuck but since here I'm a gawking tourist I've been doing a modicum of cardio, and it has affected me exactly as expected, but instead of give myself credit for the work I did and realizing I could take this lesson back home I'm going to turn it into some weird contest and continue to blame my environment."
It is possible to eat healthy here too, though that is admittedly harder especially if you're dead set on not cooking, yet there are healthy to go options if you know where to look still. Buy a used bike and eat healthy at home, you don't have to have cool foreign shit to look at while you do it, there's probably a nice park or trail nearby you can have cool local nature to look at too. Or travel a lot and use that as an excuse if you're privileged enough, whatever, but make no mistake you don't have to.