Old school weight loss approach

yeah, it's true. To lose weight you need to 1. reduce stress & 2. EAT MORE NUTRITIOUS FOODS, for example, beef, chicken, tuna, salmon, almonds, yogurt, cheese

Don't over think it. Exercise more, eat less processed garbage

a lot of weight loss is counterintuitive. At the end of the above video, she talks about a study where obese people were put on a diet of nutritious foods: they were eating 2x the amount of calories compared to their diet before and were losing weight.

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Or just eat less calories than you burn.🤷

The interval is the rest period between bouts of exercise. How does one rest frantically?

Calories is neither here nor there. Your body has an hormonal response (read: insulin, peptide YY, others) to what you eat. For example, if someone goes to a baseball game and drinks 1,000 calories of soda, his body releases INSULIN to store those calories, but the person is still hungry. There's no SATIETY is just straight carbs/sugar. So, then he orders a hot dog.

Counting calories alone is useless. because your body has a different response *depending on what those calories are composed of* (protein, fat, or carbohydrate). Does that make sense? In the above study, people double their calories and lose weight - obese people went from "semi starvation diets" to normal eating to lose weight.

"Weight loss is 90 - 95% what you eat, maybe 10- 5% exercise" - internal medicine doctor who writes books on nutrition

I'm pretty big as far as runners go. Was around 175 lbs for a long time and just kind of plateaued around there. I always found I would lose a bit more weight during 1/2 training than full even though the 1/2 was much less mileage. I think it was more of the faster intervals.

But what worked for me way more than I initially thought it would was the 16/8 hr intermitttent fasting. I pretty much stop eating at 6 pm and start up again at 10 am. I've got as low as 165 and consistently under 170. After the first week or 2 I got used to it, and when I do get a little hungry it still feels better than when I eat too much. Not only the weight loss but rhr and bp both improved a lot.

Calories in versus calories out still applies.

I don't count calories, but I know instinctively if I am overeating or undereating. Who doesn't?

I say don’t overthink it. Eat what you like. Exercise if you like. Get fat and die if you like. It’s not like most people are doing anything else by overthinking.

"Well, yes, but actually no". Obese people could be literally starving themselves and still not losing weight. Insert meme here

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It's not that simple as CICO.

Your body isn't static in the # of calories that it burns: people who go on "semi starvation diets" to lose weight end up a) losing muscle and b) lowering their basal metabolic rate. both of which will make it more difficult to lose weight & be metabolically healthy.

Really? What planet are you on? I will feel satiety eating just white rice or dates or pita chips or white bread other simple carbs. I can’t down 1000 calories of soda in the course of watching a game, but even just a normal sized sugary drink suppresses my appetite a bit.

And it depends what you mean by "in" when you say calories in, calories out. "In" isn't what you eat, it's what you digest/use/store. If you eat nothing but coal you'd have a very high calorie diet yet waste away and starve to death.

Then there's the constrained energy model, which doesn't exactly break CICO but it complicates the "out" part enough to render it way less useful than people think.

Satiety is a hormonal response not a decision.

If you are healthy your hormones tell you to stop eating. If you are insulin resistant or have hormonal imbalances your hormones will not tell you stop eating.

Hunger is a hormonal response not a decision. When your cells need energy they will send a hormonal signal to your brain which makes you feel hungry.

Almost every obese person is insulin resistant. Insulin is the hormone that allows the sugar to leave the blood stream and entire the cell where it's burned for energy. When the sugar never gets into the cell the cells continue to send the hunger hormone to the brain so despite drinking 1000 calories of soda and having a stomach that sloshing around and full the person will still "feel" hungry.

Sounds like you are not disagreeing with anything I actually said or the incorrectness that I pointed out of the specific strong claim of the other poster: “There’s no SATIETY in just straight carbs/sugar”.

I understand if you just want to say random obvious things like your first sentence and keep building on that.

You posted your feelings as if they had any bearing at all on how other people respond to carbohydrate.

I think there's a lot of "obvious" things you don't quite understand yet.

But if you reduce food intake and metabolic rate, you are reducing calories out also. Thermodynamics still applies, so it's still calories in versus calories out.🤷

But before they became "insulin resistant" (if that's your diagnosis/prognosis for what you define as "obese") they were definitely deciding to overeat.