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Important to note, that only with metabolism of a young male, it is possible to lose weight without exercise. I am 37 and restricting my calorie intake helps, b
by arsenico 8y ago
Important to note, that only with metabolism of a young male, it is possible to lose weight without exercise. I am 37 and restricting my calorie intake helps, but not greatly. Exercising daily - helped a lot. Most women of 30+ must exercise to lose weight - metabolism is completely different.
- endless1234 8y agoSource on your claim that women over 30 won't lose weight if they are on e.g. a consistent 500 kcal daily deficit?
- weliketocode 8y agoWhy would you bother asking for a source for this?
- fredoliveira 8y agoBecause he/she would like to learn more, or potentially dispel a myth? I don't get why you'd ever question curiosity.
- weliketocode 8y agoIt sounded more to me that he/she was being sarcastic than curiosity. And, of course I can question curiosity. We're in the internet age. If you have a basic question, ask google.
- endless1234 8y ago>We're in the internet age. If you have a basic question, ask google. When somebody presents an opinion that seems to go against the general scientific consensus, no, I won't just google it, I'd rather ask what they base it on.
- _up 8y agoHe didn't say that! It gets harder to maintain that deficit because your metabolism will start to conserve energy, your body gets colder and sleepy and therefore uses less energy. At least if the deficit is chosen too high.
- endless1234 8y agoOkay, that makes more sense, that the maximum sustainable deficit would decrease with age.
- arsenico 8y agoCan you live a life on a consistent 500 kcal diet? I was saying that with age (and with gender) it is much more difficult to maintain weight with just lowering down the calorie intake.
- mlrtime 8y agoOf course you can , but if you think living life = pizza, cake, fries, then you will have to make adjustments.
- arsenico 8y agoLiving life is going to work every day, working 8 hours a day, and then having something for yourself in the evening - walks in the park, or some exercise, or something else that actually requires energy.
- endless1234 8y agoI get that it's more difficult to do such changes the older you get just from a psychological standpoint, especially if your body is used to a caloric surplus (which it probably is if you're thinking about going to a 500 kcal deficit). But I'm interested in knowing if the body metabolism really changes so drastically when you get older as to make a -500 kcal diet impractical, and where the cutoff for practicality would then be.
- arsenico 8y agoAnd sorry, no source on this, but a lot of people around fighting gaining weight while restricting calories.
- marticode 8y agoYou are mistaken - all life forms including humans obey the laws of physics. If you eat at a caloric deficit you will lose weight no matter your age or if you do exercise.
- shawn 8y agoThey are not necessarily mistaken just because we have a hypothesis. It's a fact that it's harder for women to lose weight than men in certain cases. Their point was that "caloric deficit" is different for each person, and sometimes dramatically so.
- inertiatic 8y agoNo, a caloric deficit is not different for each person. Every living person that is maintaining their weight can eat 500 kcals a day less than they do now and they'd lose weight.
- arsenico 8y agoNow imagine a woman who eats 1000 kcal a day already. How is she supposed to survive and maintain a liveable lifestyle at 500 kcal/day?
- highace 8y agoIf she's eating 1000 kcal a day then she probably isn't overweight so wouldn't need to cut down further.
- ionised 8y agoPretty sure that would be bordering on anorexia.
- inertiatic 8y agoI would wager that woman: a) Doesn't really eat 1000 kcals a day if she's active, and should, instead of building a diet by counting calories (doing which she's prone to miscalculation), simply eat less of whatever she usually eats. b) Doesn't need to lose half a kg of fat every week.
- DanBC 8y agoExercise does not help weight loss. Exercise is important, and people should exercise because they get benefits even if they don't lose weight, but you should stop saying it's useful to reduce weight. We think that people heavily over-estimate the amount of calories burnt by exercise; they under-estimate the amount of calories they eat; and exercising gives people "permission" to eat more calories than they normally would. http://www.cochrane.org/CD003817/ENDOC_exercise-for-overweight-or-obesity http://www.cochrane.org/CD003817/ENDOC_exercise-for-overweig...
- tallanvor 8y agoExercise burns calories, so it certainly does help weight loss if done in conjunction with a proper diet. You are correct that people frequently overestimate how many calories they burn working out, and that they then eat more as a result - both because they think they've earned it, but also because exercise stimulates your appetite. But when you understand these instincts and stick to the diet, exercise will help you lose weight more quickly.
- arsenico 8y agoExercise doesn't burn a lot of calories, but it changes the way your body processes calories (or spends them vs stores them).
- janlaureys 8y agoCalorie counting apps are great for battling that, after a while I'm like: "Is it worth running 2 hours for this bag of potato chips ?"
- saiya-jin 8y agoRestricting calories sufficiently can create weight loss at any age. Metabolism is not magic but basic chemistry/physics, if output exceeds input this will happen. Of course each of us is unique, and also changes over time, so efficiency of both inputs and outputs varies. I believe you meant that its mentally hard to restrict one so much in later age to suffer from hunger enough to lose weight, but technically its doable and happening in millions of instances around the world all the time (ie due to long term illnesses). Exercise helps tremendously of course, and everybody should do enough of any healthy type every day to get sweaty (and more). But it isn't necessary to lose weight, not at all, at any age.
- krzat 8y agoAt 30 photosynthesis starts or what?
- arsenico 8y agoI wish - then it would be enough to be in the sun.
- pottspotts 8y agoThis is incorrect. The laws of physics in play are biochemically complex but the net energy differential is straight forward. Calorie Intake > Burn Rate = Weight Gain, and vice-versa. Exercise increases the burn rate, but it doesn't change the formula.
- briandon 8y agoCompletely eliminating simple carbs (bread, noodles, rice, pasta, potatoes, and the like) and eating meat and veg and dairy (i.e. a cheese-heavy salad with sugar-less dressing, a big bowl of broccoli with cheese melted on it, as many chicken breasts, steaks, and burgers as I liked, coffee with heavy cream but no sugar, etc.) exclusively worked for me. Weight gradually melted away over the course of the past year and I'm still dropping pounds. Meals like those fill me up quickly and I stay full longer. All while I've exercised very little. And I'm older than you.
- arsenico 8y agoYou're in ketosis basically. I love keto and think it is the best thing that I can do to actually love weight and still be able to enjoy food.
- tzahola 8y agoOh yeah. And after 40, you start to gain weight by not eating! /s