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Anon figures out how dieting works (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] MilitantVegan 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically this is true, but in practice strict calorie deficit diets don't work for most people. To be in a calorie deficit state is a state of starvation, and most people's entire biological drives rail against it. What usually happens with these kinds of diets is the person will do well for a time, but the constant starving will drive them to either start unconsciously sneaking in more sources of calories, or they'll outright rebound into eating even more than they did before.

Sustainable weight loss ultimately comes down to living healthy by default.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventist_Health_Studies

https://thankful2plants.com/obesity/21-tweaks-by-dr-greger/

https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The problem with losing weight the healthy way is this. Go look up how many calories you burn per hour on various types of exercise. Now look at how much calories different food has. That's a lot of time you have to give up just for exercise. I have a hard time justifying eating lunch for example if I'm going to have to exercise for 2 hours to burn that off. I don't doubt there are all kinds of good reasons to not attempt to lose weight via restricting food intake but at least it's passive and it does sometimes work for some people.

[–] Reddfugee42 5 points 7 months ago

This. It's an absolute joke to lose weight through exercise. "But you can't sustain deficit forever" well duh I never said I want to disappear. Lose the weight, then learn a new maintenance normal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If you burn calories (exercise), and eat the same calories as before, you are in a calorie deficit. (The same as if you just eaten less).

If you eat exactly as much calories as you need to you can tecnically transform fat to muscles, but its really hard and you need to almost count every nutrient.

Most ppl reduce it too much and risk a rebound. Just eat 50/100 calories less than your daily burn rate and you are on the way. (It's not really fast, but steady)

[–] graeghos_714 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For me to drop from my high of 205 back to a working weight under 180 it took lots of travel for work where I was away from my munchies for 3 to 4 weeks. The first time I got down to 185 in Brazil and then a trip to India got me down to about 170. I quit drinking soda pop, and started eating more fiber and no sugar for breakfast other than the raisins and dates in my muesli and quit eating bagels for breakfast as much. A T-bone accident on my motorcycle 18 months ago left me with a bad leg/foot so I'm a lot less active and loss a lot of muscle weight. I'm down to 155 now. I was 145 when I got out of the Marines 40 years ago

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Losing 25 pounds is vastly different then having to lose 150 pounds.

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[–] Moreless 3 points 7 months ago

The alternative is getting a tattoo or buying branded clothes and accessories /s

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