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Valid points about money, but they’re primarily talking about calorie restriction and how metabolic adaptation eventually leads to weight loss stopping, because
by jamesgill 9mo ago
Valid points about money, but they’re primarily talking about calorie restriction and how metabolic adaptation eventually leads to weight loss stopping, because metabolism adapts to less energy and you can’t just keep ‘eating less’.
If you’re familiar with the low carb community, this is what’s famously called the ‘Biggest Loser’ problem, referring to the TV show and how contestants lost a lot of weight through extreme calorie restriction—but their metabolism eventually slowed down and they couldn’t eat less, so—nearly everyone gained it all back.
- magicalhippo 9mo ago> they couldn’t eat less If they are gaining weight, why can't they eat less?
- y0eswddl 9mo agometabolic slowing with increased calorie restriction means that eventually the body adapts to the point where youd be consuming too few calories to function and still barely losing any weight
- magicalhippo 9mo agoYes but they already lost weight. What I didn't understand is how the body decides to store fat, ie gain weight back, rather than function properly.
- jamesgill 9mo agoThere's a lot of info about this online, but here's a quick TL;DR example: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/lessons-from-the-biggest-loser https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/lessons-... What most people don't understand is that weight loss and health is about a lot more than 'calories in/calories out', despite what we've been told for decades.