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Everything I have read suggest changing it is quite hard. A study I came across recently was about a 34 year old man who fasted for 40 days, lost about 20kgs.
by dfraser992 8y ago
Everything I have read suggest changing it is quite hard. A study I came across recently was about a 34 year old man who fasted for 40 days, lost about 20kgs. His daily calorie requirements went from like 1800 calories to 1600 (IIRC), but the paper did not go into any detail other than he was able to maintain his reduced weight by eating appropriately for the 6 months after the fast. My recollection of this paper is probably off in some way.
So it seems it is like primarily a combination of psychological and behavioral modifications that impact physiological things. If you maintain the current set point / weight for long enough, your body adjusts.
- pascalxus 8y agoA new york times article had a study that showed set point remains stubbornly high, even after 6 years of painfully maintaining a lower weight.
- dfraser992 8y agoA link, if you have it handy? Not arguing, just trying to get more information. edit: I now recall a UK TV station (BBC? ITV4? sorry) that investigated how people have quite different metabolism - they monitored people with state of the art device showing how they varied quite a lot despite having the same exact diet.
- pascalxus 8y agoI can't see NY articles anymore because i ran out of free ones. but i think it was one of the following two: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-fat-trap.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=D9E521BE0DFE489891AD4EAC968DCE8C&gwt=pay https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope... https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-cant-lose-weight-on-a-diet.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=35792DC038A295CBB65475D44781A7E1&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/why-you-ca...