Posted on 01/01/2022 8:20:11 AM PST by Mariner
It's resolution time again, and if you’re like most people, eating “better” may be one of your goals for the new year. According to a survey on 2021 resolutions, the most common commitments people made were to exercise more (46 percent), improve their diet (45 percent), or lose weight (44 percent).
In fact, as many as 45 million Americans begin a diet each year. But research shows that weight-loss diets just don't work. They’re unsustainable and you're likely to regain the weight.
What if, instead of plotting how you'll restrict your calories in the new year, you resolved to feel good about the food you eat?
That's the advice of eating psychology expert Elise Museles, author of Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think & Live. Museles encourages readers to consider their personal food stories--how they were raised around food, their ideas and rules about diet, and the emotions they feel when they’re eating--both positive and negative. She says discovering your story about food is key to creating a healthy new narrative about what, why, when, and where to eat.
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“Your body can produce carbs on their own without having to eat them.”
The body can convert fat or protein to glycogen, which is the simple sugar we run on.
But it does so slowly, and you have limited storage for what it does convert.
Once those stores are depleted, you bonk.
That’s why it’s very, very difficult...if not impossible...to sustain any sport or fitness program on a keto diet.
“Most people have completely unrealistic expectations, both on how long it will take to achieve fat loss, and also how many calories they really require for maintenance.”
So true.
And baffling at the same time. The science is well developed and simple.
The execution is hard.
To lose a pound a week is not easy. Yet most people expect to lose far more with half the effort it takes to lose that pound.
Most people do not have the will for it.
Funny.
Somehow, for some reason, that is making sense now.
No it is not usually easy.
To lose weight you do have to be hungry. And to maintain it you have to be vigilant. If you have too many calories one day or one week you have to restrict for a day or a week, or you will indeed gain.
While my best friend may lose a pound a week at 1750 a day I may need to stay at 1500 a day to accomplish the same thing. Yes I can increase my daily need by exercising more and harder. But many are limited there, especially as we get older.
I had a dear MIL who was very heavy - scooter in WalMart heavy - and she just tried and tried to lose but basically never did. Then she had a few strokes, was bedridden in a convalescent home, and was fed with Ensure in a stomach tube.
Lo and behold she lost weight. Just lying there 24/7. Why? Due to her activity? Because she had a nice high metabolism or good hormones. No. Because every day she was given the exact number of calories she needed to maintain a healthy weight - so, she lost. For like three years.
It’s the calories. Yes water retention or constipation or a tumor will register on the scale. But eventually you will lose if you eat less than you burn.
Ohhh, another “expert”!
“Ohhh, another “expert”!”
Most fat people are resentful of the proven methods and the science. I know. I was once fat.
Stash of twinkies on the downlow I’ll bet.
In the daytime, I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Oh Lord, have pity on me
Actually, there’s a mid-ground: a low carb (less than 100 g)/high protein (40%) diet without fasting.
Who paid for it?
All you had to do to determine funding is click on the link and find:
“This research was funded by the University of California, San Francisco, Cardiology Division’s Cardiology Innovations Award Program and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH R01 DK109008). Additional support came from the James Peter Read Foundation. Bluetooth connect scales were graciously gifted from iHealth Labs Inc. MOCACuff blood pressure cuffs were gifted from MOCACARE. Health tracking rings were gifted from Oura.”
But perhaps you’ll somehow find a Deep State/Big Pharma conspiracy somewhere in there.
I have an unfortunately fairly long story that illustrates this.
My wife was an “athlete” in her own right but she had never been much of a bicycle rider while I had raced successfully at the national level. So, I purchased tandem bicycles and we started putting a lot of miles on them. We had a 40-mile ride in hilly terrain that we rode nearly every weekday. Unfortunately we got hit by a car driven by an 80 year old lady who had just had her second eye surgery and my wife's foot got crushed.
It put her out of commission for quite a while but after the surgery on her foot healed, I started getting her out again. A group of riders that I met on the road invited us on a century (100 mile) ride with them. Unfortunately, the rear chainstay on our good road tandem broke about a week before the ride, so we had to take our funky folding tandem that had mountain bike handlebars, cheap components, and a frame that weighed 10 pounds more than our road tandem.
Just about everyone in the group were wearing the latest in high fashion cycling clothes and riding bikes worth as much as a used car. They took one look at our setup, and they gave us a map to the restaurant that we were going to visit at the 60-mile mark. They were all sure that we wouldn't be able to keep up. The route was a little rolling but had no serious elevation gain, so the heavy frame was no disadvantage. And the tandem did give us a slight advantage even in our upright position.
This was my wife's first century but she had been on plenty of 40-mile rides recently. A rule of thumb is that if you plan it out you can typically ride three times as far on a long ride as your usual training ride without difficulty. And I knew that riding in a group would give her extra energy.
The group had no idea how competitive our spirit was, so we ended up leading the group the entire way and pushing the pace a little faster than we normally maintained and apparently a little faster than they told us they usually rode. Since my wife had never been on a ride quite this long I set a timer on my watch that went off every 10 minutes. It was a pleasant day. Every time the alarm went off, I made her drink ice water from our hydration pack and take a couple of chomps out of a caffeinated energy bar.
When we got to the restaurant the rest of the group was pretty beat looking. But my wife was still looking fresh. None of them could believe that she had never ridden a century before.
As soon as we got to the restaurant, we started eating food that we had brought with us and ordered some big sandwiches. While we were scarfing down our jumbo-sized sandwiches, the rest of the group almost unbelievably were pretty much all eating trendy high protein diets, eating salads and meat without any buns. And several told us how well this had been working out for them. They were telling us that we were going to be “sluggish” because of all the “carbs” we were downing.
It was over an hour before they were ready to get back on the saddle to finish the ride. My wife and I were feeling good and ready. Like a machine we got right back into our routine pushing the pace again. Within 1/2 an hour the group started fragmenting with people falling off the back. We had to wait for some of them. The guy who had invited us had some sort of diabetic problem and we had to stop at a convenience store and try to nurse him back to health so he could limp the last few miles back to his car.
We were never invited to go riding with them again. The reason that they performed so poorly was because of poor planning and inappropriate food and drink choices. My wife and I had carbo-loaded the night before to make sure the glycogen stores in our muscles would be topped off. We ate carbohydrates for breakfast and continued eating them during the ride. At the restaurant we were eating carbohydrates as soon as we got off the bike, so our muscles had already begun replenishing their glycogen stores while we were resting. Just as importantly we were drinking cool easily absorbed water every ten minutes and staying hydrated.
Why did we know to do this? I had years of experience riding up to 200 miles and more in a day. If knew from this that if you are well trained and maintain your carbohydrate and hydration levels that you can maintain your speed and comfort even while metabolizing a great deal of stored fat. Eating a bunch of protein and fat while trying to maintain high energy output may not hurt that much, but it certainly does not help.
Rd later.
I should mention after mentioning caffein in my previous post that while it can enhance performance on a long bicycle ride that it causes you to sweat more and can cause you to become dehydrated even while drinking normal amounts of water. I know several people who have collapsed from dehydration and ended up in the hospital after taking too much caffein during competition.
I have started with orange juice : )
“And the reason you are not where you want to be is because you are not putting in the work.”
That’s total BS from a typical I’m better than you mentality. I do 30-45 minutes of cardio every day and lift 3 times a week. I sit and watch others eat whatever they like while I eat a very restrictive diet of low sodium and low carbs and seldom eat out at restaurants. I’ve given up most of the foods I love to try to lose and maintain a healthy weight, but one off day and all the work goes to hell. So, reserve your haughty superiority attitude for someone sitting around all days eating candy and cookies while binge watching Netflix. I’ve dealt with enough of your type in my life.
“Your evidence based on daily scale readings that you can gain far more weight from the same diet that skinny people eat is basically nonsense”
Nonsense? Would you like to see the daily weight records. I’ve got 6 years’ worth. But then it’s obvious that you know so much more than I do about my health issues. Have you ever been even 10 lbs. over your ideal weight? I could show you in the last week three days when I averaged 1.2 lbs. gains per day. Using your scenario, I would have had to have consumed 4200 extra calories per day on those three days or a total of 12600, to accomplish that. I probably don’t eat 12600 per week. And yes, I keep very exacting dietary records too. So, peddle your, you’re just lazy and overeat preaching somewhere else.
No, I never said anything even resembling that.
So, peddle your, you're just lazy and overeat preaching somewhere else.
Here is what I said, “When your weight is varying 1-3 pounds in a day... that is from water not fat, or a big load of poo that you have either expelled of are carrying around inside your intestines.”
I also said, “You likely do have a slow metabolism from heredity and a sedentary lifestyle but there is no reason that with determination and better choices that you could not turn this around.” Then I in the next paragraph I mentioned a bariatric procedure that has had a 100% success rate in the people I know who for whatever reason were not able to keep weight off over an extended period of time.
You are living in a fantasy land if you believe that your body can manufacture fat out of nothing. I am sorry that this reality for whatever reason causes you great distress. It should give you hope. Unfortunately, most doctors will not level with their patients who are unable to enjoy their lives because they have remained morbidly obese for decades.
My great uncle is in his mid 90s. He was morbidly obese for 50 years. He had his hips and both knees replaced twice. His doctor told him they were not going to do surgery again and he was either going to have to live the rest of his life in wheelchairs or lose a couple hundred pounds. The doctor also told him that he probably wouldn't last more than another year or two. He went to another doctor and that doctor old him the same thing. This straight talk and a “belly band” surgery saved his life. He lost 300 pounds and he is still alive 5 years later and doing the things that he enjoys again.
I don't care how you feel about being told the truth. I don't care how you feel about me.
Wake up and find a doctor who is actually going to set you on a different path. YOU ARE NOT AN EXCEPTION TO THE LAWS OF PHYSICS. You either have giant abdominal tumor that you are feeding, you are a giant water balloon, or you are super fat from eating more calories that you burn. DO SOMETHING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE AND START LIVING AGAIN!
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