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>"The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s
by nonbel 8y ago
>"The only thing you really need to know is that you should be eating fewer calories than your body burns everyday. If you do this, you will lose weight – it’s science. Nothing else matters for weight loss. The magnitude of the caloric difference will regulate how quickly or slowly you lose the weight.
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I naturally started eating healthy foods because I could eat more of them. If you eat a chocolate bar, you will still be hungry. For the same amount of calories, you could eat a few bowls of vegetables and be full.
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Somewhere along the journey I picked up intermittent fasting. I like it but it’s also not necessary. I found that it helped reduce my appetite which means I can eat fewer calories."
I don't really think this is consistent. Basically yes if you eat less calories than are used you must lose weight, but the ease of doing this depends on what you are eating.
- k__ 8y agoThis. The devil is in the details. Sure the rule is simple: Calories in == Calories out But you need to find out rather exactly how much you really burn, it's often less than you think. And then you have to eat stuff that doesn't fill your daily calories with one meal, or else you will crave more later that day.
- latortuga 8y agoNot only is it less than you think, but it changes with consumption! CICO is true but only trivially so, the variables are dependent. You can run 3mi to burn more calories, but you get more hungry as a result.
- bognition 8y agoThe biggest challenges I've observed with people trying to lose weight with CICO (calories in, calories out) it getting a reliable estimate of how much your eating and how many calories your body is truly burning. Being off by 100 calories translates into roughly 12 pounds per year. I know you can use a food scale to get a more accurate estimate of calories in but I'm still at a loss to determine an accurate estimate of calories out.
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- arnjerobben 8y agoSimple, if you gain 12 pounds in a year you're burning 100 calories less than you need to.
- Retric 8y agoYou don't need extreme precision with counting calories. 500-1000 calories is a lot of food each day as long as your rounding up you can get good enough. The trick IMO is to simply eat the same thing every day. That way you can remove things as needed to maintain weight loss. But, also adjust based on what you actually eat not just your goals.
- pbhjpbhj 8y ago>simply eat the same thing every day // And die from boredom removing the problem of obesity completely ...
- Ntrails 8y agoLosing weight is not without cost. Be it hunger, time/effort, boredom, or unmet cravings. Everyone has the right to choose which kind of cost they are willing to endure in order to lose weight - this includes refusing to pay any cost at all (and not losing weight). Nothing comes for free.
- magic_beans 8y agoYou don't have to eat the same thing every day, but you DO have to cook food yourself. You cannot trust the cooking practices of restaurants.
- EpicEng 8y agoIt's really not that complicated. If after some amount of time you're not losing/gaining what you expect per your numbers you tweak said numbers a bit. That's all. You don't need to be accurate to the calorie, or even to ~100. If you're on a deficit most days you will absolutely lose weight. Calorie counting works and eating fewer calories than you burn is the only way to lose weight. Far too many people start exercising a bit, continue to eat in the manner they've become accustomed to, and wonder why they don't lose weight. It's not rocket science; you just need to eat less and (probably) eat better.
- phkahler 8y agoYep. He even mentions fasting: "Somewhere along the journey I picked up intermittent fasting. I like it but it’s also not necessary. I found that it helped reduce my appetite which means I can eat fewer calories." I tried that too. Lost 7lbs in 7 days and then a few more. I regularly skip breakfast, but to really make it work skipping lunch and keeping eating to a 4-hour window was really effective. I need to do some more of that. And it does reduce your appetite after a few days.
- nothrabannosir 8y agoI’ve been doing intermittent fasting (4h eating) for two months now and I’m struggling not to lose weight. It never was my goal, but now I’m actively trying to curb it, yet still shedding pounds like crazy. Especially if you try to get fibre and carbohydrates in. I can completely believe that helped in his endeavour.
- tom_mellior 8y agoWhy are you doing it? What benefits to you expect to make up for the struggle?
- nothrabannosir 8y agoIf I’m being totally honest: probably because I like trying new things and this is fun. I could retroactively justify this with stories about HGH, general alertness, longevity, health, improved eating patterns, but I’d probably be lying to myself. It’s a challenge that’s nicely orthogonal to the rest of my routine, so it’s fun. Plus some people I trust said it was “good for your health”, so I didn’t bother to look further and just took their word for it.
- bonesss 8y agoIf you're eating carbs and fasting it will be a struggle -- worth it or not, who knows. Most of the intermittent fasters I've been following aren't going through some masochistic daily hunger-torture. They're just eating more "paleo" or "keto" so their diet is ripe with dietary fat. That makes going from three smaller, to two larger, or even a single huge meal a matter of habit that can be changed in a couple weeks. It's also unproblematic to "cheat" on the fast when need arises. The idea is just to clock as much 'fasted' time as pragmatic.