As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up

Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by mjfl on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:29PM (#13825444)

Fat is approximately 3500 calories per pound. If you are gaining 15 pounds per year you are overeating by 3500x15/365 calories per day. If you would like to instead lose 30 pounds per year, reduce your caloric intake per day by 3500x15/365x3 = 432 calories/day.

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Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by falcolas on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:55PM (#13826534)

Once you cutout the obvious high calorie culprits like sugar, 400 calories is a pretty decent sized, healthy meal. Cutting out a meal a day is really hard to do. Hunger sucks, and had a lot of negative impacts on the rest of your day.

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Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by mjfl on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @10:30PM (#13826703)

Yes, losing 30 pounds in a year will involve skipping about 1 meal per day and is not easy at all actually.

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Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by akurnids on Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:48PM (#13834562)

(Anecdotally) It gets easier as time goes on, and you can use intermittent fasting [1] to halve the amount of days with restriction and still maintain a net loss.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13825676

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Re:As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up by sn9 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @03:13AM (#13827884)

Or you could just eat more low calorie and nutrient dense vegetables to be satiated at a lower calorie count.

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