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I'm sorry, but your claim is simply not believable. A 340 pound man cannot maintain that weight with only 2000 calories a day. That would equate to a metaboli

I'm sorry, but your claim is simply not believable. A 340 pound man cannot maintain that weight with only 2000 calories a day. That would equate to a metabolism that burns less than 6 calories per pound. MAYBE if you were bedridden your metabolism could drop that low. It is true that metabolism varies by individual, and it's also an unfortunate truth that people who were obese and get their weight down to a level that the medical community deems healthy will have a slower metabolism than most naturally skinny people. But there is no chance that you were maintaining a 2000 calorie diet before you started losing weight. What is also true is that most people do not properly estimate the number of calories they consume each day. I certainly have a hard time doing it - the only real way is to prepare all of your food yourself, or buy prepackaged food that you can measure accurately. I guarantee you were eating much more than you thought you were.

cecilpl2 7y ago
> What is also true is that most people do not properly estimate the number of calories they consume each day. I don't have a reference handy, but I have read studies that show that when people self-report calorie consumption from memory they tend to underestimate by a large margin, reporting in the vicinity of 50-70% of actual consumption. You can't get closer than 10% accuracy given that nutritional labels can be off by that much, and you aren't getting that unless you are making all your own food and weighing everything with a food scale. A restaurant meal can vary by hundreds of calories based on how much dense fat like oil or butter is in it, and look identical each time.
- tallanvor 7y ago
  It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the average person really does underestimate calorie consumption by that much. Beverages alone are one of the major sources underestimated calories. A 20oz bottle of soda with sugar is multiple servings, but people don't think about it as such. The same goes for fruit juice and a lot of the fancy coffee beverages. Alcohol is also easy to underestimate, especially if a glass of wine with dinner can turn into half a bottle or more, or a nightcap turns into a double.
DiabloD3 7y ago
Thank you for proving my point, people are quick to just repeat what they've been told and ignore new information. It is certainly a strange phenomenon on the internet nowadays.
- tallanvor 7y ago
  You did not present any new information. You made a claim that is not supported by the science. Nobody is arguing that we aren't learning more about weight and nutrition, but that doesn't mean we ignore science for personal anecdotes that are likely untrue.
  - DiabloD3 7y ago
    Except you're still further proving my point. Instead of expressing that you wish to learn about the science, you just quote decades old bad science that never really was true. In a way, its sorta like how flat earthers and anti-vaxers work, you're just part of a third type that denies nutrition science. I did exactly what I said I did, and so have many other people, and what you're engaging in is an odd form of fat shaming (seeing as I'm not fat anymore, but used to be; and lost my weight entirely by following the science where it lead me).

cecilpl2 7y ago

> What is also true is that most people do not properly estimate the number of calories they consume each day. I don't have a reference handy, but I have read studies that show that when people self-report calorie consumption from memory they tend to underestimate by a large margin, reporting in the vicinity of 50-70% of actual consumption. You can't get closer than 10% accuracy given that nutritional labels can be off by that much, and you aren't getting that unless you are making all your own food and weighing everything with a food scale. A restaurant meal can vary by hundreds of calories based on how much dense fat like oil or butter is in it, and look identical each time.

tallanvor 7y ago
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the average person really does underestimate calorie consumption by that much. Beverages alone are one of the major sources underestimated calories. A 20oz bottle of soda with sugar is multiple servings, but people don't think about it as such. The same goes for fruit juice and a lot of the fancy coffee beverages. Alcohol is also easy to underestimate, especially if a glass of wine with dinner can turn into half a bottle or more, or a nightcap turns into a double.

DiabloD3 7y ago

Thank you for proving my point, people are quick to just repeat what they've been told and ignore new information. It is certainly a strange phenomenon on the internet nowadays.

tallanvor 7y ago
You did not present any new information. You made a claim that is not supported by the science. Nobody is arguing that we aren't learning more about weight and nutrition, but that doesn't mean we ignore science for personal anecdotes that are likely untrue.
- DiabloD3 7y ago
  Except you're still further proving my point. Instead of expressing that you wish to learn about the science, you just quote decades old bad science that never really was true. In a way, its sorta like how flat earthers and anti-vaxers work, you're just part of a third type that denies nutrition science. I did exactly what I said I did, and so have many other people, and what you're engaging in is an odd form of fat shaming (seeing as I'm not fat anymore, but used to be; and lost my weight entirely by following the science where it lead me).