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Agree, straying from thermodynamics is wrong. Human fat holds around 8000Kcal per Kg. Stop eating altogether. Every the 8000th Kcal more or less you would have
by thefz 3y ago
Agree, straying from thermodynamics is wrong.
Human fat holds around 8000Kcal per Kg.
Stop eating altogether. Every the 8000th Kcal more or less you would have lost 1Kg of fat.
- waterheater 3y agoMy reply to him addresses this. Intermittent fasting works better than starvation.
- Toutouxc 3y agoThere’s the issue of not being able to decide what gets burnt. I’ve read that under certain circumstances, the body can actually burn the muscles faster than it burns the fat. Which obviously makes exercise harder.
- com2kid 3y agoWhen losing weight, about 75% fat and 25% muscle is lost, with a ton of variables being in there (exercise routine, how much muscle you have, what your diet looks like, etc). Lots of arguments about what diets maintain the most muscle (e.g. fasting people say they keep the most muscle, and as much as I love fasting, plenty of studies say that is probably not true.)
- thefz 3y agoWhy would the body touch anything else when it has a preferential energy storage?
- agos 3y agobecause the body is not a perfect machine. If it were, all this discussion would be moot
- aantix 3y agoIt's not always going to be fat. The dramatic weight loss induced by GLP-1's demonstrates that. We're seeing a disproportionate amount of lean muscle mass loss.
- gilbetron 3y agoThe problem is that it is overly simplistic. It is similar to saying "running a marathon is just a thermodynamic problem, expend 2500 calories in a single direction and you can do a marathon." Sure, that's true, but that's not the hard part. Existing at a caloric delta long enough to meet your goal is the problem!