Re:The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
by AstralStorm on Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:14AM
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Nobody is glossing over it, it is subject of active research. Until that research produces any generally useful results (drugs, tests, treatments), the advice stays the same.
We know exactly one applicable test: thyroid hormone levels. This one is worth checking.
Eat less everything but more fresh vegetables, especially greens, exercise more. How much depends on how fat you are - not necessarily just overweight, body composition and fat percentage is more important and still reliably measurable.
"Toffee" kind of fat is a thing, where a thin looking and not very heavy person is actually fat inside, just lost muscle so weight stayed similar.
On the other hand, nobody wants people with big muscle mass to always cut diet to levels expected of show body builders.
My point is the body is very complex and any attempt to simplify it is doing a disservice to anyone listening to you.
I was overweight for 20 years and lost the weight by calorie reduction. It works - clearly. But in a forum reserved for educational discussion I'm not OK glossing over the complexity of the body because it's true in the general case. That'd be as sinful as saying quantum physics is wrong because newtonian is generally the deciding set of rules.