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It's hard for me to take something like this seriously. If, after losing weight, these people are driven to consume more calories than their bodies are expendi
by rottencupcakes 15y ago
It's hard for me to take something like this seriously.
If, after losing weight, these people are driven to consume more calories than their bodies are expending, they need to do something to compensate for that, plain and simple. It could be exercise or it could be gaining muscle mass (and maintaining muscle mass requires more caloric intake than maintaining fat).
It's an absurdity to believe that these people should be able to lose weight, then simply go back to being sedentary and eating what they want to eat and expect to keep it off.
- weirdcat 15y agoNote that for a year the subjects were on a "maintenance diet", which most probably was intended to limit their calorie intake to match their daily energy expenditure, and still gained some of the weight back.
- nandemo 15y ago> Note that for a year the subjects were on a "maintenance diet" I believe a more exact wording would be: "the subjects were asked to keep a maintenance diet, and they reported doing so". Without reading the article (which is not freely available), it's hard to see how they verified the subjects actually kept the diet for 1 year.
- nodata 15y ago> If, after losing weight, these people are driven to consume more calories than their bodies are expending, they need to do something to compensate for that, plain and simple. We already know this is the case. The article addresses why this is difficult.