The ONLY scientific weight formula proven countless times (and disproven only for a few extraordinary cases) is:
(lower Calories )+ (exercise) =weight loss
The more you increase the variables on the left the more you get results on the right.
Everything else is wishful thinking.
And I am working on the left but I don’t hold out any visions of anything affecting my weight except hard work and discipline.
I’m not overweight, I’m just too short so I’ve decided next year I shall grow another 5 or 6 inches taller.
Your equation doesn't include those of use that consume a lot of calories, and don't spend a lot of time exersizing, and stay rail thin.
As a food service professional, I care about this issue. I'm glad they are doing the test. I look forward to the results.
/johnny
Simply not true. You can eat unlimited calories and do no excercise on the Atkins diet, and lose weight. It’s all about carbs, especially “bad carbs”.
Very few people can stay on the Atkins diet for long though.
“(lower Calories )+ (exercise) =weight loss”
Works every time its tried!
Today I’m having bacon, eggs and cheese biscuits. I’ll ride 25 miles to burn it off!
My opinion is that there are a few too many variables for a simple "formula" or heuristic to be universally applicable.
Including, for example:
Age of person
Gender of person
Body fat percentage of person
Time-dependent mapping (to childhood) of body-fat percentage of person
Time-dependent mapping (to childhood) of exercise history of person
Past diet of person (chronic sweet tooth different from healthy eater)
Type, duration, and frequency of exercise protocol
Toxic load, including lyme disease, mold, solvents
Calories consumed currently
Composition of diet currently (carb%, protein%, fat%)
Types of carbs consumed
Timing and size of meals, absolute and in relation to exercise
I think it will be found that one's profile of exercise vs. food (timing, duration, frequency of both) will have a LOT to do with epigenetics which determine how one handles food; and that it will be found that *drastic* but consistent changes to one's exercise and diet can re-set the epigenetics from "fatty" to "lean mean fighting machine" over time: requiring only titanium willpower and consistency; but that, as with so much else, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" and eating healthy with a history of exercise throughout childhood and adolescence will make it MUCH harder to gain weight later in life.
Cheers!
No, that is no longer true. Limit your carbs. Eat more healthy fats: coconut oil, meat and butter from healthy animals (no feedlot animals are healthy - go as organic and grassfed as you can), some olive oil if you don’t heat it. You will lose weight.
Try only 20 g of carbs a day. No fake sugars. Forget the exercise - it’s good, get out there and do whatever you like, use your body - but for weight loss, your diet is 80-90%.
This is the over simplified concept the author is saying needs to be challenged.
A couple of summers ago I started riding my my bike to work, 13.5 miles each way and 1000 of elevation gain.
That was 2.5 hours a day. At my peak, I did a 6 week stretch without missing a day. Do you know how much weight I lost in that period. 1 pound.
Then with your absolute 100% proven theory, you would say, well you must have eaten more food.
Believe me I did not eat an extra 2500 calories a day.
If it was as simple as you say, 94% of people who lose significant weight would not regain it. They obviously knew how to lose it.