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Have you tried it? I did, it's easier only for some time. After you lose about 6-7% of your body weight it's very hard to eat less, your whole behaviour changes

Have you tried it? I did, it's easier only for some time. After you lose about 6-7% of your body weight it's very hard to eat less, your whole behaviour changes.

beardbandit 9y ago
Being 100% sedentary + eating less calories is pretty difficult. For some reason unbeknownst to me, exercise makes eating less a lot easier.
SketchySeaBeast 9y ago
Is there statistics for this? I recently dropped 20% of my bodyweight, but didn't find that my behaviour changed at all. If anything as the routines set in it became easier.
- yetihehe 9y ago
  Statistics no, but I heard this many times, not believed it and then confirmed this with my body.
- JshWright 9y ago
  Generally a sustained weight loss of 10% is considered to be a good target. It's the around the balance point of "real, tangible benefits" and "can actually be accomplished and maintained". There are absolutely people who are successful at losing (and maintaining) more than that, but they are a pretty small minority. I don't have sources in front of me, but this is based on many conversations with my sister-in-law, who is just wrapping up her dietetics internship (after completing her undergrad in nutrition). I'm sure I can get some sources from her later in the day if you would be interested.
  - SketchySeaBeast 9y ago
    I would be interested in reading on this phenomena. I've heard this 10% before, but didn't find there to be much of a bump myself. The diet at no point was particularly difficult to stick to once I'd developed the initial discipline. I did find my strength performance to decrease after about 3 or 4 months, but I don't know if that's due to a particular hormonal shift, or being on a caloric deficit for an extended length of time, and a general decrease in mass making lifts harder.
DCoder 9y ago
I tried it - I lost nearly 25% my weight (down from 132 kg to 101 kg) over this year by eating less and walking on foot a lot more. Eating less is certainly having a lesser effect than it did at first, but I'm still losing weight bit by bit.
- darioush 9y ago
  Walking is very underrated as exercise. People think they have to go to the gym or run a marathon for it to count. In fact, if you're overweight, running could shoot your HR way up (+190). Try walking.
- yetihehe 9y ago
  Will have to try walking more, this may be good suggestion.
- MrFoof 9y ago
  I did similar a few years ago. Dropped from 172lbs (78kg) to 139lbs (63kg) in 5 1/2 months. Near 21% weight reduction in body weight, just by counting calories and walking (granted, quite a bit). There definitely isn't a "wall" you encounter when losing weight. I tracked everything I ate (often to the gram) and it felt like little more than basic arithmetic. Had a friend take notice, so he took it up himself. Dropped the best part of 60lbs (27kg) over the course of the year. Very different diet, but again tracked everything he ate (again, often to the gram) and lifted weights instead of walking. He was baffled with how simple it ended up being, but was pleased with himself nonetheless.
arkh 9y ago
Yup. Dropped 25kg (45ish lb) 3 years ago. Gained 12kg back the next 2 years which I removed during the last 6 months. Still more weight to shed but I know what works for me and what kind of effort it requires: going hungry by eating less. Like lot of fat-logic people I used to think that exercising was required and even the only thing needed to get fit. "I'll just start exercising and be back to an healthy weight" is just a fantasy. There is no miracle way of doing it.

Have you tried it? I did, it's easier only for some time. After you lose about 6-7% of your body weight it's very hard to eat less, your whole behaviour changes.

beardbandit 9y ago

Being 100% sedentary + eating less calories is pretty difficult. For some reason unbeknownst to me, exercise makes eating less a lot easier.

SketchySeaBeast 9y ago

Is there statistics for this? I recently dropped 20% of my bodyweight, but didn't find that my behaviour changed at all. If anything as the routines set in it became easier.

yetihehe 9y ago
Statistics no, but I heard this many times, not believed it and then confirmed this with my body.
JshWright 9y ago
Generally a sustained weight loss of 10% is considered to be a good target. It's the around the balance point of "real, tangible benefits" and "can actually be accomplished and maintained". There are absolutely people who are successful at losing (and maintaining) more than that, but they are a pretty small minority. I don't have sources in front of me, but this is based on many conversations with my sister-in-law, who is just wrapping up her dietetics internship (after completing her undergrad in nutrition). I'm sure I can get some sources from her later in the day if you would be interested.
- SketchySeaBeast 9y ago
  I would be interested in reading on this phenomena. I've heard this 10% before, but didn't find there to be much of a bump myself. The diet at no point was particularly difficult to stick to once I'd developed the initial discipline. I did find my strength performance to decrease after about 3 or 4 months, but I don't know if that's due to a particular hormonal shift, or being on a caloric deficit for an extended length of time, and a general decrease in mass making lifts harder.

DCoder 9y ago

I tried it - I lost nearly 25% my weight (down from 132 kg to 101 kg) over this year by eating less and walking on foot a lot more. Eating less is certainly having a lesser effect than it did at first, but I'm still losing weight bit by bit.

darioush 9y ago
Walking is very underrated as exercise. People think they have to go to the gym or run a marathon for it to count. In fact, if you're overweight, running could shoot your HR way up (+190). Try walking.
yetihehe 9y ago
Will have to try walking more, this may be good suggestion.
MrFoof 9y ago
I did similar a few years ago. Dropped from 172lbs (78kg) to 139lbs (63kg) in 5 1/2 months. Near 21% weight reduction in body weight, just by counting calories and walking (granted, quite a bit). There definitely isn't a "wall" you encounter when losing weight. I tracked everything I ate (often to the gram) and it felt like little more than basic arithmetic. Had a friend take notice, so he took it up himself. Dropped the best part of 60lbs (27kg) over the course of the year. Very different diet, but again tracked everything he ate (again, often to the gram) and lifted weights instead of walking. He was baffled with how simple it ended up being, but was pleased with himself nonetheless.

arkh 9y ago

Yup. Dropped 25kg (45ish lb) 3 years ago. Gained 12kg back the next 2 years which I removed during the last 6 months. Still more weight to shed but I know what works for me and what kind of effort it requires: going hungry by eating less. Like lot of fat-logic people I used to think that exercising was required and even the only thing needed to get fit. "I'll just start exercising and be back to an healthy weight" is just a fantasy. There is no miracle way of doing it.