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Originally Posted by Pinner
Your talking about Devil's Advocate who lost 170 lbs in 1 year.
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That doesn't mean he can't mess up the last few pounds.
My point is anecdotal evidence is useless.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Nobody has time to go to the U of C and get someone to measure their body fat, or get DEXA or hydrostatic weighting done. Hell, half the population hasn't even heard of those two latter methods.
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Which is why they use BMI to measure obesity rates. Get it?
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Originally Posted by Azure
Maybe you should take your scientific books and look up with happens to your body if you eat 1500 calories, which is near starvation to some people, for 12 months.
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I would imagine you would lose weight!
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Originally Posted by Azure
Your metabolism and energy levels slow down.
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Imagine that. You're taking in less calories (calories are a measurement of the energy content of food), and will therefore have less energy!
Weight loss is hard. You're starving your body so it consumes itself (fat). That's how it works, and that's why people struggle with it.
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Originally Posted by Azure
People hit plateaus all the time. And when you're in a calorie deficit diet for a long period of time, your leptin levels drop. When that happens, your rate of fat loss slows down. So in order to bump your leptin levels, you need to periodically overfeed to facilitate greater fat loss.
Some people advocate binge eating at specific times, but from personal experience just eating around 1500 more calories during that time seems to do the trick.
This is exactly why I have always said its not as simple as calories in, calories out. There is a lot more involved.
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There is more involved if you don't have the motivation to continue at such low caloric intake. Your body tells you to stop operating at a caloric (energy) deficit, which is why it has mechanisms like leptin. All you are doing is delaying fat loss by periodically stopping the energy deficit, and with 1500 more calories are likely at an energy excess; you would gain weight during this time.
Have you never seen a starving child? They don't get fat after getting skinny from being starved...
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Originally Posted by Azure
Of course, you're going to turn around and now call me fat, and trump up the scientific research you studied at UofC which in your arrogance makes you smarter than the rest of us fat people who don't understand how the human body works.
I think it may be time for the ignore list to get another member
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Ignoring the fact that I keep proving you wrong? That I can provide scientific research and fact that you're too stubborn to even read?
You'd rather go through life believing what you want and struggling with health and fitness than, god forbid, think once in awhile. Your loss (not weight loss though!).