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I think part of the problem is dieting. 500 calories a day sounds miserable. I'd be interested to see if they get the same results for exercise. A few years

I think part of the problem is dieting. 500 calories a day sounds miserable. I'd be interested to see if they get the same results for exercise. A few years ago I dropped about 100 pounds, and I've yet to put the weight back on. What did it for me was lots of biking, hiking, trail running, and skiing. At this point, I have so much fun "exercising", I don't know if I could put the weight back on if I wanted too.

dredmorbius 15y ago
500 cal/day isn't miserable, it's insane. It's counter to well over 50 years (if not more) of medical evidence and experience with sustainable weight loss. Look up the Minnesota Starvation Experiment -- used to study the effects of long-term starvation among WWII POWs and concentration camp survivors. This involved six months of semi-starvation -- at 1500 cal/day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment Fewer than ~1200-800 cal/day is generally considered "VLCD": very low calorie dieting. If macronutrients and micronutrients aren't very carefully controlled, the body is essentially eating itself in slow motion. And odds are very good you wouldn't be able to exercise much if at all at 500 cal/day.