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This is one of those inconvenient truths that no one likes talking about. Keto works, ultimately, because you're consuming fewer calories than you're burning. L
by freehunter 8y ago
This is one of those inconvenient truths that no one likes talking about. Keto works, ultimately, because you're consuming fewer calories than you're burning. Low carb works, ultimately, because you're consuming fewer calories than you're burning. Exercising more works, ultimately, because you're consuming fewer calories than you're burning. Counting calories works, ultimately, because you're consuming fewer calories than you're burning.
Yes people will jump in and say "but but but but macros" and "but but but ketosis" but ultimately it's calories in < calories out.
Much like programming, everything eventually gets translated to machine code. Putting Assembly on that, and C on that, and then using Python just makes programming easier. But it doesn't change the fact that ultimately, it's all machine code. The Atkins diet is just syntactic sugar on top of the machine code of your body.
That's not to say it's a useless abstraction... there are plenty of programmers who wouldn't be doing the job, and plenty of jobs that wouldn't get done, if everyone had to program in machine code. Making it more accessible is a good thing, as long as you understand that Python ultimately becomes machine code, and your diet plan ultimately becomes calories in < calories out.
- dalbasal 8y agoIt's not an inconvenient truth, it's a trivial truth. "You can make this program in any Turing complete language" is true. That truth is interesting to a computer science class. It's completeky useless and meaningless to a person writing a program. Say you want a program that does something with a relational database. The right advice is "you can do this with SQL." The fact that human bodies follow the laws of physics ads no information. It is a logical red herring.
- freehunter 8y agoI wouldn't say it's trivial at all. I'd consider it the most important piece of knowledge there is on the subject. You can be on a keto diet and gain weight. You can be on a low carb diet and gain weight. And if you don't understand the basic principles of why that is, you'll think that losing weight is impossible. If you believe that keto is the only way to lose weight and you gained weight while following it, you're going to quit. You need to understand why various diet plans work. Ultimately, they all work because they help you eat fewer calories than you're burning. If you follow the diet exactly but still consume more calories than you're burning, you will gain weight. If you don't understand that fact, you've already lost. I can't think of a single more important fact to understand than that.
- po9her 8y ago> You can be on a keto diet and gain weight. You can be on a low carb diet and gain weight. No you can't I'm in a Ketogenic diet 6 months now (lost 83 pounds so far) and although i'm eating the same amount of calories (and even more) as i did before i started i'm losing weight non stop, no exercise , no intermittent fasting, NO-THING! You clearly have no idea what you're talking about
- freehunter 8y agoSo you're saying that you can consume 5000 calories per day, only burn 2000, and still lose weight. Have you considered submitting this to a scientific journal? This changes our entire understanding of the laws of physics. Faster-than-light travel actually sounds possible now. Or you're lying, and also making anyone who did gain weight on the keto diet feel worse about themselves and give up on losing weight altogether.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoIt doesn't have to be lying. It could just be "ignorant, sure of themselves, and loudmouthed". Seriously, the accusation of lying is not one you should make lightly, no matter how mistaken the position being presented.
- freehunter 8y agoTrue, but I'd still consider that to be lying to themselves, rather than lying to us. If the story is true, the likely reality is they're not counting their calories so they don't realize they ended up eating fewer calories than they were before. They just think they're eating more because they didn't realize how many they were consuming before. I don't make the accusation of lying lightly. We're dealing with a new account making wild claims that break the laws of physics and could have serious impact on someone's health, claims made in the face of all available science. Whether they believe it to be true or not, it's a lie.
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- RandallBrown 8y agoLots of people don't believe that bodies follow the laws of physics. I have friends that have told me with a straight face that it's possible to gain weight while having a caloric deficit if you're not eating the "right" food.
- mlrtime 8y agoThere are people in this thread saying the same thing, it is very confusing why people think this.