I eat very little food compared to most people. I have a desk job, so use very little energy every day. It blows my mind how much food everyone around me eats. I'll watch people get a meal from a restaurant that would take me 3 days to eat. The sheer quantity of food people eat, especially sedentary people, is why they are so fat. Fasting would definitely help them lose that weight, but cutting their portions down to what is actually needed for their energy output is another requirement to staying fit. Unfortunately, eating is just as addictive as drugs, and people can't break the routine of eating constantly.
Might having something to do with the amount of salt/fat/sugar they add to takeout and other processed foods. Who would have known that shit was so addictive..
I eat once a day, mostly all protein (ground beef with organs is my favorite) with some low oxalate veggies and fruit for dessert. I take a few supplements (NAC, tumeric w/black pepper, D in the winter) and walk regularly. I do a 72 hour fast once a month. I hardly lift weights but I’m ripped and chicks like me.
Your body does not unlock all calories equally. This is why calorie counting fails - consuming 2000 calories of easily converted and stored calories are not the same as eating 2000 calories of actual food.
The idea that your body is 100% efficient at converting all types of energy sources is hilariously stupid.
Most of the 'food' in grocery stores is not fit for human consumption.
Agreed for the most part. If you're overweight, you already have the caloric fuel onboard--- filling up the tank with anything more than critical nutrients just hinders the process of emptying the tank.
Just want to add-- taking carnitine tartrate after exercising will trigger your body to burn fat rather than glucose. I'm likely being crazy reductionist and missing some key points, but it's worth looking into.
Also, a quality green drink powder (if it's heavily advertised, it isn't quality) to cover the bulk of your nutritional needs. You'll be amazed at how satiated you feel when you're getting your nutrient needs covered even without the calories (sort of the inverse of how non-satiated you feel 30 minutes after eating nutrient-depleted calorie-dense meals like Chinese takeout)
Read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. You treat excess adipose tissue as a "store" when it's actually the result of endocrine imbalance brought about by imbalanced diet. And by "imbalanced" I'm talking the artifical removal and adulteration of food's naturally occuring mineral salts by polishing, cooking, fractionating, salting, etc.
If you eat unprocessed food, the body will naturally find the endocrine balance again. Just as when you stop abrading the skin, the body removes the callus. Your body compensates for imbalance. Remove the imbalance and the body undoes the compensation.
Eat only raw vegetables as much as you want. You will lose weight. Eat only roasted meat on the bone as much as you want. You will lose weight. Eat only roasted potatoes. You will lose weight. Eat only whole grain bread. Hell, even if you eat only panela sugar (whole, unfiltered, dried sugar cane juice) you will lose weight. Eat all of these and you will lose weight. It doesn't matter. As long as you're keeping the food mostly intact from it's naturally occuring form and not washing away mineral salts in boiling, eating branless white or polished grain, or slathering everything in condiments, white sugar, and salt.
It's so simple you scientistic types will never get it. You don't realize that so-called "diets" are a completely artificial construct. Nature already provided the "diet". If you begin to stray from that, YOU LOSE. If you begin to impose your own ideas on nature YOU LOSE. Your body IS nature. I'll point out that aside from humans and pets, every animal on the planet is eating raw and unseasoned. If you're a serious person, you're going to have to discover for yourself which of the many contrivances you "depend on" and "need" for your food is causing an imbalance in the body. Because there is no analogue for your fatass in the greater world where the innate intelligence of the body isn't interfered with by bombarding it with the artificial. It operates on its own; it doesn't require the hand of man to rebalance it. Put an end to the contrivances in your food and the body goes back to normal.
Btw, you don't realize that eating whole food and fasting are "effective" for the same reasons. Both are absent of the stimulus which caused the imbalance in the first place. That stimulus being imbalanced food.
Remove the stimulus, and the body winds down the compensation you call "excess fat". There many other reasons to fast, but doing it to lose weight is silly unless the foods themselves are changed. The actual problem is going unaddressed and fasting just relieves the symptoms until you do it all over again.
Keep in mind, that would include essentially every sauce, condiment, and seasoning in your kitchen. So, you'll find this challenge to have a wider effect than maybe you first expected.
By the way, consider this well known dogshit about how "the body loses electrolytes when it sweats". Is the body really just inadvertently dumping essential nutrients while trying to cool itself? Is it not also perfectly well known that sweating is detox mechanism, hence the age-old theraputic use of saunas?
That's right, the body is excreting dietary seasoning salt in sweat exactly because it's not useful. It's utility is meeting man's psychological satisfaction, that's it. And because essentially every meal has added sodium chloride in one form or another, only a certain amount can be excreted through urine before the next meal. So, there is chronic "backlog" that just sits in the tissues, waiting. Sweat is not naturally salty. Science tards look at the components of sweat and immediately assume the body is losing something and needs to be corrected. The body is getting rid of the trash it doesn't need, you dipshits.
Regardless of the diet you pick it is very hard to permanently lose weight by diet alone. Your body will compensate for fasting and other diets and eventually you just regain all that weight you lost. If you want to lose weight and keep it off start by ignoring the scale and use a skin fold caliper instead. Then start some kind of resistance training and add in an hour walk or 30min run. Next oversimplify the foods you eat; a couple protein types, a couple carb types, and a couple fat types. That’s all you eat every day for every meal. No alcohol, no sugar. Do that for 8 weeks and you’ll lose at least 50lbs probably more.
The how of losing weight is incredibly simple. The difficulty is that it’s just boring as fuck.
Sorry I disagree. I was over 350 lbs 2 years ago. Down to 178 now & been stable +/- 5lbs for past 9 months. I completly removed sugar and 90% carbs. My diet consists of meat (any kind i want) , vegetables ( green leafy & cruciferous) , berries , dry roasted nuts & zero sugar dairy . No Processed foods! I try to get as close to raw as possible. Not keto, just refucing carbs to as close to zero as possible.
Feeling healthier than i have in decades. No brain fog, swollen joints and reduced pain levels. Reduced metformin from 3/day to zero. My blood sugar has not been over 130 since i got off the drugs. Cholesterol good and bad down to point I'm going off statins at next dr vist. Blood pressure normal for the last year. Bp was so bad I was close to daily hypertensive crisis for past 30 yrs. I had to completely replace my wardrobe. 4x down to large & 48 inch waist down to 29.
I started by going through my refrigerator and cabinets tossing everything with sugar. This left my kitchen nearly empty because almost every product has sugar or hfc's. I only shop the outside sections of store. Completely bypass bakery section! My only concession to baked goods is sugar free cookies.
Thanks! Once i was finally told i had diabetes i immediately stopped eating sugar. Also zero alcohol for 3 yrs now.
It was easy i retrained myself to look at sugar & carbs the same way i would look at a bottle of arsenic. Once you realize how bad refined sugars are it becomes second nature. There are alot of fruits and veg that are high glycemic (high fructose) that i lump into the poison category. Anything on a label that ends in OSE are foods to avoid.
Plenty of people have been talking about the hunger, weight and sickness fixing effects of fasting.
Also, if you eat ZERO CARBs, just protein and fats, your body only makes the amount of glucose it needs via gluconeogenesis.
And its so much easier to fast for 18 hours, or 24 hours, or 48 hours, when you are fully ketogenic, adapted and don't have hunger anymore.
Try it, you'll never look back.
I eat very little food compared to most people. I have a desk job, so use very little energy every day. It blows my mind how much food everyone around me eats. I'll watch people get a meal from a restaurant that would take me 3 days to eat. The sheer quantity of food people eat, especially sedentary people, is why they are so fat. Fasting would definitely help them lose that weight, but cutting their portions down to what is actually needed for their energy output is another requirement to staying fit. Unfortunately, eating is just as addictive as drugs, and people can't break the routine of eating constantly.
Might having something to do with the amount of salt/fat/sugar they add to takeout and other processed foods. Who would have known that shit was so addictive..
oh yea
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html
I eat once a day, mostly all protein (ground beef with organs is my favorite) with some low oxalate veggies and fruit for dessert. I take a few supplements (NAC, tumeric w/black pepper, D in the winter) and walk regularly. I do a 72 hour fast once a month. I hardly lift weights but I’m ripped and chicks like me.
Your body does not unlock all calories equally. This is why calorie counting fails - consuming 2000 calories of easily converted and stored calories are not the same as eating 2000 calories of actual food.
The idea that your body is 100% efficient at converting all types of energy sources is hilariously stupid.
Most of the 'food' in grocery stores is not fit for human consumption.
Agreed for the most part. If you're overweight, you already have the caloric fuel onboard--- filling up the tank with anything more than critical nutrients just hinders the process of emptying the tank.
Just want to add-- taking carnitine tartrate after exercising will trigger your body to burn fat rather than glucose. I'm likely being crazy reductionist and missing some key points, but it's worth looking into.
Also, a quality green drink powder (if it's heavily advertised, it isn't quality) to cover the bulk of your nutritional needs. You'll be amazed at how satiated you feel when you're getting your nutrient needs covered even without the calories (sort of the inverse of how non-satiated you feel 30 minutes after eating nutrient-depleted calorie-dense meals like Chinese takeout)
You are completely wrong.
Read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. You treat excess adipose tissue as a "store" when it's actually the result of endocrine imbalance brought about by imbalanced diet. And by "imbalanced" I'm talking the artifical removal and adulteration of food's naturally occuring mineral salts by polishing, cooking, fractionating, salting, etc.
If you eat unprocessed food, the body will naturally find the endocrine balance again. Just as when you stop abrading the skin, the body removes the callus. Your body compensates for imbalance. Remove the imbalance and the body undoes the compensation.
Eat only raw vegetables as much as you want. You will lose weight. Eat only roasted meat on the bone as much as you want. You will lose weight. Eat only roasted potatoes. You will lose weight. Eat only whole grain bread. Hell, even if you eat only panela sugar (whole, unfiltered, dried sugar cane juice) you will lose weight. Eat all of these and you will lose weight. It doesn't matter. As long as you're keeping the food mostly intact from it's naturally occuring form and not washing away mineral salts in boiling, eating branless white or polished grain, or slathering everything in condiments, white sugar, and salt.
It's so simple you scientistic types will never get it. You don't realize that so-called "diets" are a completely artificial construct. Nature already provided the "diet". If you begin to stray from that, YOU LOSE. If you begin to impose your own ideas on nature YOU LOSE. Your body IS nature. I'll point out that aside from humans and pets, every animal on the planet is eating raw and unseasoned. If you're a serious person, you're going to have to discover for yourself which of the many contrivances you "depend on" and "need" for your food is causing an imbalance in the body. Because there is no analogue for your fatass in the greater world where the innate intelligence of the body isn't interfered with by bombarding it with the artificial. It operates on its own; it doesn't require the hand of man to rebalance it. Put an end to the contrivances in your food and the body goes back to normal.
Stay fat moron.
Btw, you don't realize that eating whole food and fasting are "effective" for the same reasons. Both are absent of the stimulus which caused the imbalance in the first place. That stimulus being imbalanced food.
Remove the stimulus, and the body winds down the compensation you call "excess fat". There many other reasons to fast, but doing it to lose weight is silly unless the foods themselves are changed. The actual problem is going unaddressed and fasting just relieves the symptoms until you do it all over again.
I'll give you a simple experiment: eat for a month consuming no salt. You will find two things appearing after a week:
Consider how the body has to compensate for this behaviour over long periods. The body is burdened by having to...
People slowly die by their "normals".
Keep in mind, that would include essentially every sauce, condiment, and seasoning in your kitchen. So, you'll find this challenge to have a wider effect than maybe you first expected.
By the way, consider this well known dogshit about how "the body loses electrolytes when it sweats". Is the body really just inadvertently dumping essential nutrients while trying to cool itself? Is it not also perfectly well known that sweating is detox mechanism, hence the age-old theraputic use of saunas?
That's right, the body is excreting dietary seasoning salt in sweat exactly because it's not useful. It's utility is meeting man's psychological satisfaction, that's it. And because essentially every meal has added sodium chloride in one form or another, only a certain amount can be excreted through urine before the next meal. So, there is chronic "backlog" that just sits in the tissues, waiting.
Sweat is not naturally salty. Science tards look at the components of sweat and immediately assume the body is losing something and needs to be corrected. The body is getting rid of the trash it doesn't need, you dipshits.
Maybe if you are over 40.
But I still don't think so no, it is energy I/O.
So, if you take in energy and do not spend it, you will retain it.
You are simply not burning enough energy to account for what you eat.
Eat More, Spend More Energy.
Forsure you could get to a point where you consume so much, no way to spend it, don't do that.
Regardless of the diet you pick it is very hard to permanently lose weight by diet alone. Your body will compensate for fasting and other diets and eventually you just regain all that weight you lost. If you want to lose weight and keep it off start by ignoring the scale and use a skin fold caliper instead. Then start some kind of resistance training and add in an hour walk or 30min run. Next oversimplify the foods you eat; a couple protein types, a couple carb types, and a couple fat types. That’s all you eat every day for every meal. No alcohol, no sugar. Do that for 8 weeks and you’ll lose at least 50lbs probably more. The how of losing weight is incredibly simple. The difficulty is that it’s just boring as fuck.
Sorry I disagree. I was over 350 lbs 2 years ago. Down to 178 now & been stable +/- 5lbs for past 9 months. I completly removed sugar and 90% carbs. My diet consists of meat (any kind i want) , vegetables ( green leafy & cruciferous) , berries , dry roasted nuts & zero sugar dairy . No Processed foods! I try to get as close to raw as possible. Not keto, just refucing carbs to as close to zero as possible.
Feeling healthier than i have in decades. No brain fog, swollen joints and reduced pain levels. Reduced metformin from 3/day to zero. My blood sugar has not been over 130 since i got off the drugs. Cholesterol good and bad down to point I'm going off statins at next dr vist. Blood pressure normal for the last year. Bp was so bad I was close to daily hypertensive crisis for past 30 yrs. I had to completely replace my wardrobe. 4x down to large & 48 inch waist down to 29.
I started by going through my refrigerator and cabinets tossing everything with sugar. This left my kitchen nearly empty because almost every product has sugar or hfc's. I only shop the outside sections of store. Completely bypass bakery section! My only concession to baked goods is sugar free cookies.
SUGAR IS EVIL!
Thanks! Once i was finally told i had diabetes i immediately stopped eating sugar. Also zero alcohol for 3 yrs now.
It was easy i retrained myself to look at sugar & carbs the same way i would look at a bottle of arsenic. Once you realize how bad refined sugars are it becomes second nature. There are alot of fruits and veg that are high glycemic (high fructose) that i lump into the poison category. Anything on a label that ends in OSE are foods to avoid.
Just eat fruit and greek yogurt for breakfast and barely if any lunch and dinner and you will lose weight.