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People get really technical trying to find excuses to keep eating when it is themselves, but when it’s your dog who is fat and the vet tells you their health is

People get really technical trying to find excuses to keep eating when it is themselves, but when it’s your dog who is fat and the vet tells you their health is threatened you just reduce their food and don’t start digging up scientific studies to show how actually some dogs need extra treats to lose weight.

user3939382 3y ago
That’s a bit of a strawman, no one is arguing that you lose weight from “extra treats” it’s more about the insulin response from the nutritional content from your food. And very likely overweight pets are eating garbage food that causes insulin resistance.
- throw__away7391 3y ago
  Pick the analogy you prefer, it just isn’t difficult or complicated. If you’re cutting it so close to the margin of overeating that you’re worried about insulin response impacting the amount of fat you accumulate, you’re eating too much. If you are at 15% body-fat trying to get down to 10% for a competition, ok, bring out the research and the studies. That is actually quite difficult. If you’ve got a visible beer gut, we don’t need to bring advanced science into this. You just need to eat less and what you do eat should not be soda, doughnuts, and fast food. It isn’t that complicated.
  - user3939382 3y ago
    > If you’ve got a visible beer gut, we don’t need to bring advanced science into this. You just need to eat less Basically almost all the research I’ve seen on keto suggests this isn’t true. That on the contrary the primary driver of weight is hormones which is driven by the composition of the food. Anecdotally I’ve confirmed this and lost tons of weight while increasing my calorie intake. I understand your position, it’s simple and people are splitting hairs. I don’t think that’s the case.

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People get really technical trying to find excuses to keep eating when it is themselves, but when it’s your dog who is fat and the vet tells you their health is

by throw__away7391 3y ago

user3939382 3y ago
That’s a bit of a strawman, no one is arguing that you lose weight from “extra treats” it’s more about the insulin response from the nutritional content from your food. And very likely overweight pets are eating garbage food that causes insulin resistance.
- throw__away7391 3y ago
  Pick the analogy you prefer, it just isn’t difficult or complicated. If you’re cutting it so close to the margin of overeating that you’re worried about insulin response impacting the amount of fat you accumulate, you’re eating too much. If you are at 15% body-fat trying to get down to 10% for a competition, ok, bring out the research and the studies. That is actually quite difficult. If you’ve got a visible beer gut, we don’t need to bring advanced science into this. You just need to eat less and what you do eat should not be soda, doughnuts, and fast food. It isn’t that complicated.
  - user3939382 3y ago
    > If you’ve got a visible beer gut, we don’t need to bring advanced science into this. You just need to eat less Basically almost all the research I’ve seen on keto suggests this isn’t true. That on the contrary the primary driver of weight is hormones which is driven by the composition of the food. Anecdotally I’ve confirmed this and lost tons of weight while increasing my calorie intake. I understand your position, it’s simple and people are splitting hairs. I don’t think that’s the case.