Re: A success story

On May 8, 7:25 am, Chris Malcolm <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
None <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why all the calculations? Why not simply eat less until you start
losingweightat the desired rate?
Because if you eat too little your body will go into defensive
starvation mode and you will in the long-run actually gainweight.

That will only happen if you make too large an adjustment. People
often do that who want to lose a lot ofweightquickly. What I meant
to suggest was simply to eat a little less, and keep lessening it
little by little until you startedlosinga littleweight. Then you
stop there,losingweightslowly but surely.

Your body is a lot smarter than you and I :) When it finds too great
a caloric deficit, it thinks "crap, I'd better store whatever the hell
comes through the front door". So, the best thing to do (from all
I've read plus my own experience) is to do the math to figure out what
the "correct" number should be.

Whereas I've controlled myweightsuccessfully all my life without
ever having to calculate calories, just by eating a little less
whenever I started getting fatter.

Now, if you play it safe as you suggest over time, you'd probably
avoid that situation, but then you're left with a psychological
problem: your progress will not be consistent in all probability and
you'll get depressed and just forget it altogether.

Of course it will be inconsistent. Life is inconsistent. But that's no
problem. I simply eat a little less if I get fat, and forget about
when I arrive at a goodweight. I expect inconsistency and it doesn't
depress me. What would depress me would be failure to loseweight
while eating less and feeling uncomfortably hungry. That very
depressingly did start to happen several years ago. It took me some
time to discover what was happening: insulin resistance was casuing me
to run high BGs in combination with high insulin levels. That in turn
was causing my bosy to push BG into fat stores before my metabolic
needs had been satisfied. So I was actaully hungry and gainingweight
at the same time. Horrible!

The solution to that problem was low carbing, or to be more accurate,
low BG spiking by means of reducing carbs as and when necessary. I was
then able to resume slowlylosingweightby eating less without being
hungry.

To me, it's
better to start from a point of being able to say "I should belosing
1+ pound a week if I follow this math", and then if it doesn't work
out (too much OR too little) then adjust from that starting point.

I don't see why that's any easier than just eating less until you meet
yourweightloss goal. After all if you're only gainingweightslowly
you must be pretty close to a slowweightloss diet, and if you're
gainingweightfast that suggests a pathological condition of some
kind which should be addressed separately (like my insulin
resistance).

Put it another way: if you have a bomb to disarm and there's 10 wires
you might cut, you could just go ahead and cut one, and you might get
lucky, even a few times out of ten, but I'd personally rather have a
schematic in front of me, even if it's only a rough sketch from
memory, and make a semi-informed decision based on that!

Fortunately I findlosingweightby eating less very much simpler than
disarming a bomb :-)

What's more, having an interest in the science of nutrition, I know
how much really crap unscientific assumptions and guesswork underly
applying generic dietary and metabolic averages to a specific
person. Most of it is cod science designed to sell diets to fat
people.

--
Chris Malcolm c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
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