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> You can't defy physics. If you control your caloric intake, your body /will/ lose fat. People whose bodies go into starvation mode in the absence of starvati
by tcj_phx 10y ago
> You can't defy physics. If you control your caloric intake, your body /will/ lose fat.
People whose bodies go into starvation mode in the absence of starvation can't lose weight.
Dietary goitrogens and excess polyunsaturated oils are very hard on the metabolism.
> I'll response with an anecdote as well: I've seen more than one person with a "thyroid condition" who were in good shape.
Being in 'good shape' is about more than excess weight. I've started to fix my metabolism, and I'm not so anorexic-looking anymore.
- hasenj 10y agoStarvation mode is not really a thing. At worst, your daily caloric output will drop by a hundred or two hundred calories. It's not going to drop by a thousand calories. Obese people have specially high caloric requirements per day. A normal size person might require 2000 calories a day to maintain weight, but an obese person could require 3500 per day (or even more). Limiting your daily intake to 1600 calories as an obese person absolutely will cause your body to burn fat. Consistently so. All you have to do is endure the hunger.
- AstralStorm 10y agoEver tried enduring hunger on a starvation level diet? If not, please do not say "all you have to do", because you have no idea how impossible it is. CR people who are reducing calories count to what you propose from healthy levels almost never go to maximum restriction immediately exactly because of this problem. And those diets are extremely precise and meticulous. A minor deviation is enough to cause long term health problems. And even at 50% caloric restriction it will take years to lose a large amount of weight.