In fact, the history of nutrition and diet studies is replete with baffled scientists trying to figure out why many people can't lose weight by eating less and exercising.
It’s pretty much people thinking that since the treadmill says they burned 500 calories that they can eat 400 and still lose weight; their basal metabolism might mean they only burned 300. Physically impossible to burn more calories than you consume without losing weight, indeed if you aren’t losing weight it’s pretty solid evidence you are either eating more calories than you think or burning fewer than you think. Every case of someone “eating less than they burn” is either error in their measurements or the retention of more water. I mean for a week or two, yeah, I could eat only 1000 calories and do my normal 3 miles and 45 minutes of weight lifting but carb up, retain 8 or 10 extra pounds of water and weigh more, but not over time or with any accurate measurement that takes into account hydration and accurate amounts of food and exercise; the readouts on a gym treadmill and the information on a package of food don’t count.
“Eat fewer calories than you burn, you *WILL* lose weight, “
So how is this not so? If you eat 1000 calories and burn 1100, you won’t lose weight? I think you owe Red an apology.
he's a great writer who happens to have learned how to leverage fad diets into an incredible fortune. He just another charlatan getting rich on the scientific illiteracy of the public.
“In fact, the history of nutrition and diet studies is replete with baffled scientists trying to figure out why many people can’t lose weight by eating less and exercising. “
I’m with you and have known people who struggled their entire lives.
I am one of the lucky ones and have always had great sympathy towards those with weight problems.
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In fact, the history of nutrition and diet studies is replete with baffled scientists trying to figure out why many people can't lose weight by eating less and exercising."
Good point! Calories in, calories out, is is a very old school way of thinking (not that old school thinking in general is bad thing) that no longer should be taken seriously. That's not to say that exercise and caloric intake doesn't come into play at all. IMO, some people just want to blame the fat person for being lazy and eating too much. Everyone should promote personal responsibility, but there is much more involved than that.
Here is a good article on the subject.
Debunking The Calorie Myth – Why “Calories in, Calories Out” is Wrong
If you’re eating fewer calories than you’re burning you will lose weight. Period.
Strip away the fancy stuff, all the debate about this or that source of caloric intake, it honestly matters naught if you’re eating less than you’re burning, and it matters naught how you’re burning it.
Where do you think the fat is coming from, osmosis? Some sort of strange humanoid air fern absorbing fat from the atmosphere? You’re not going to get to an obese state without feeding it, well above the basic requirements for bodily function.
What does work with roughly similar caloric intake is shifting almost completely away from carbs in favor of animal protein and moving around more.