Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. You people pushing calorie restriction diets and exercise have a forty year history of short term success followed by long term failure.
The human body is a dynamic system that changes in response to stimulus. Calorie restriction diets cause our metabolism to slow down, requiring even more calorie restriction and exercise to make up the difference. Eventually you are starving all the time and spending enormous amounts of time exercising — just to maintain.
Eventually people get sick of spending four hours a day in the gym and starving themselves. They stop exercising, start eating more and they are worse off than they were before because they have destroyed their metabolism. Everyone who has ever followed a traditional diet for very long is all too familiar with this pattern.
If you are obsessed with calorie restriction, the only way to do it without sabotaging your metabolism is some form of fasting. And fasting is far easier and more effective than calorie restriction diets anyway. Your body is built to effectively fast, and it actually increases metabolism instead of depressing it.
Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. You people pushing calorie restriction diets and exercise have a forty year history of short term success followed by long term failure.
Yes, it is hard to read a thread with so many stupid people.
“Eventually you are starving all the time and spending enormous amounts of time exercising — just to maintain.”
Ludicrous and fallacious.
Only the people without sufficient will, fail.
I eat between 1800 and 2100 calories of whole foods every day. And I invest about 5 hrs per week in exercise. I eat when I’m hungry, not to assuage some dark demon from childhood or some other specter.
Or because I’m a pussy with low self esteem.
So take your weak-willed nonsense back to the psych office. It doesn’t belong in a health thread.
Intermittent Fasting (aka “time restricted eating”) is the best thing that ever happened to me.
People generally tend to lose the fat, without any changes in what they eat or how much they eat, just by eating one meal a day. I am not immortal though, and I liked to have seen the scale have moved meaningfully down when I get on it. It’s a morale thing.
I have to “restrict calories”, if only compared with what I was eating before, which was “unrestricted” to say the least.
I got fat over time by 1. Eating whatever foods I wanted. 2. Whenever I wanted. 3. In whatever amounts I wanted.
If I can control 2 out of the 3 I got er licked, basically. IF at one meal a day takes care of one, “whenever” and puts the body at a definite advantage apart from simply losing weight. Tonite having Chicken & Rice, with a glass of milk probably tops out at 1300 calories. It tastes fantastic, and is filling.
Coffee and cigarettes for breakfast, as God intended!