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I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I have occasionally shared them. :( If you're interested, I do have a recommendation for you. For my money, Joel Gree

by Dove 2y ago

I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I have occasionally shared them. :( If you're interested, I do have a recommendation for you. For my money, Joel Greene is the best scientific thinker on the topic of diet and health, and his recent book "The Way" does a lot to replace frustration and confusion on the topic with sense and helpful advice. I recommend it if you've had success with a diet, and then regained the weight, and now nothing works - that's the exact problem he's focused on. Above and beyond whether you like his suggested solution, he does a lot to uncover mechanisms and explain the complexity of the problem. For what it's worth, I think your experience is completely normal. Nearly universal, even.

dangus 2y ago
Oh my God it's like you didn't read my comment at all. I. Am. Not. Looking. For. Advice. Especailly not some stupid fucking self help book from a quack selling $100+ supplements.
- Dove 2y ago
  Sorry - didn't mean to offend. I know unsolicited advice on the topic is unwelcome, and I don't exactly mean that I think I can solve your problems. More like, you seem frustrated by simple explanations, and I wanted to point you to the resource that I think does the best job of explaining why you are right -- things are complicated. I know Joel Greene comes off as a nut, and I don't usually recommend him for that reason. But you could also hardly ask for more mechanistic detail and science than he goes into. Seemed something you might be interested in. My bad if it's not. If you'd rather see the bibliography without the boomer, here's what's directly relevant to what you were writing about - one of the (several) mechanisms for weight regain and why losing weight is so much more difficult the second time around: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(23)00080-3 https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(... (TLDR: Control of hunger by the hypothalmus responds to dieting by becoming more aggressive, and it stays that way after the diet stops.) It's not in your head and it's not a character flaw. Purely physiologically speaking, naive, restrictive dieting really does become much harder, if not impossible, the more you do it.

by Dove 2y ago

dangus 2y ago

Oh my God it's like you didn't read my comment at all. I. Am. Not. Looking. For. Advice. Especailly not some stupid fucking self help book from a quack selling $100+ supplements.

Dove 2y ago
Sorry - didn't mean to offend. I know unsolicited advice on the topic is unwelcome, and I don't exactly mean that I think I can solve your problems. More like, you seem frustrated by simple explanations, and I wanted to point you to the resource that I think does the best job of explaining why you are right -- things are complicated. I know Joel Greene comes off as a nut, and I don't usually recommend him for that reason. But you could also hardly ask for more mechanistic detail and science than he goes into. Seemed something you might be interested in. My bad if it's not. If you'd rather see the bibliography without the boomer, here's what's directly relevant to what you were writing about - one of the (several) mechanisms for weight regain and why losing weight is so much more difficult the second time around: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(23)00080-3 https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(... (TLDR: Control of hunger by the hypothalmus responds to dieting by becoming more aggressive, and it stays that way after the diet stops.) It's not in your head and it's not a character flaw. Purely physiologically speaking, naive, restrictive dieting really does become much harder, if not impossible, the more you do it.