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You will have a lower 7 day rolling average on a low carb diet than on a high carb diet because of glycogen. A low carb diet will deplete it faster, so you will

• somenameforme 3y ago
  "Diets" don't really make any logical sense from a weight management perspective as a liminal thing. Your body will always trend towards a given weight for a given caloric input, because one of the biggest factors in your daily caloric burn is how much you already weigh. And as you lose weight, it goes down. In other words, your equilibrium caloric intake will decrease as you lose weight. So if you go on a diet, drop 30 lbs, and then go back to eating the same amount you were before, then you're going to regain those 30lbs right on back. The reason checking the scale is useful is because they can clue you in on where a given caloric input is taking you, up or down. The details and timeline aren't really relevant, because if you want the gains to stay then that "diet" is your new, permanent, lifestyle.
  • MattJ100 3y ago
    Your logic seems to imply that any given "diet" leads to either increasing or decreasing weight. If you were overweight but stable, a temporary restriction followed by a return to the original diet would suffice, right? That's where this article is helpful, as it explains how (and how much) weight gain can be expected when you end the temporary restrictions.
    • somenameforme 3y ago
      In general, no. People's bodies vary dramatically, but in the end after everything (metabolism, lifestyle, and numerous other factors) is accounted for you're basically going to end up with a table at any given snapshot in time. And that table will give you a weight you'll end up at if consume 'x' calories per day. The reason going on a fixed deficit (or bulk) will not just endlessly let you lose or gain weight is because when you lose weight, your body starts being able to operate on fewer and fewer calories. Your metabolism might improve, but nowhere near enough to counter this effect. And vice versa when for bulking. If you have a high tolerance for food repetition, you can even experimentally see this really easily. Lay out a diet for cutting and you can see the scale will gradually trend towards some specific weight with the decreases getting smaller and smaller. And vice versa when bulking, where you'll see initial big gains followed by a leveling out as your body approaches its new equilibrium caloric intake. This is something anybody who's done any e.g. body building can attest to. So going on a deficit and then going back to eating what you were just means that you're just going to head back to your old weight. So diets really need to be a permanent lifestyle thing, which is why finding one you can be comfortable with is so critical.
  • iopq 3y ago
    Then just don't go back to eating as much > The reason checking the scale is useful is because they can clue you in on where a given caloric input is taking you, up or down. you could just grab your stomach fat to get a more accurate progress measurement
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