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It’s important to separate the mechanism of weight loss from the method you use to achieve it. The mechanism is consuming less calories than you’re expending. H
by laichzeit0 6y ago
It’s important to separate the mechanism of weight loss from the method you use to achieve it. The mechanism is consuming less calories than you’re expending. How you do that is up to you. For example, I’ve lost weight on a fast-food only diet, because I like eating burgers and pizza. I just make sure I’m consuming less than 2200 calories, which puts me at approximately 15% caloric deficit. If you want to eat more, say at 2500 calories, then you’ll have to exercise enough to burn another 300 calories so you’re still in deficit. You can bump up your “maintenance” calories by putting on more lean mass, by weight training for example.
- ogre_codes 6y ago> It’s important to separate the mechanism of weight loss from the method you use to achieve it. I think it's far more important knowing what actions work for an individual to achieve weight loss. Most everyone knows that X calories in and X calories is the end target. Knowing how you can reach that balance is the hard part. Every time I see some kind of forum about weight loss there are a million people popping in talking about "Putting the fork down" or "Calories In < Calories Out". But this is worthless because in the end, having a solution that a person is capable of doing is far more important than theory.
- laichzeit0 6y agoI’m convinced most people are still not aware of the mechanism. They equate eating healthy and exercising with being the “cause” for losing weight. I avoid avocados and nuts on a diet because it’s so caloric dense. Yet how many people order some stupid avocado, nut “healthy” salad drizzled in olive oil because they’re on a diet.