Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:20PM
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> Caloric deficit == weight reduction. Doesn't matter your physiology.
True. This is the one piece of weight loss advice that multiple scientific disciplines agree on. However, being true does not make it easy.
Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by rukittenme on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:22PM
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Did you miss the part where I describe how to make it easier? Did you miss the part where I criticize diet culture from preaching starvation as some sort of virtue.
> If you tell someone they need to eat less to lose weight (which is what almost every diet does) then, yes, it will be hard to maintain.
Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:32PM
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Yes. your advice is not significantly different than common advice on how to make it easy, and my personal experience with trying many, many things is that it is never actually easy.
Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by rukittenme on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:34PM
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I do it and have done it many times. You're not sacrificing anything by buying products with fewer calories in them. Just read the label.
Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by amanaplanacanal on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:04PM
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Wait. So you are saying your method allows you to lose weight but you can't keep it off long term? There are tons of diets that do that.
Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by rukittenme on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:13PM
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Hah! A funny observation. No the weight loss and gain were not based on my ability to maintain that level. They were based on changing priorities. When I first started, I wanted to be a body builder (so I gained). Did it for a while, then wanted to be "athletic" (so I lost). Then I maintained for a while (focusing on career, lost a lot of weight from sedentary lifestyle). Then I wanted to be a powerlifter which required fluctuations in weight. Now I want to be a "strongman" (so I'm gaining). Btw I'm not a world class athelete. I never even compete. I just enjoy chasing the goals and seeing my body adapt. Its a fun hobby(-ies) that's all.
My change in weight reflects a change in priorities and habits. Not an inability to maintain.
Re:Effect of Weight Loss on Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Imp...
by amanaplanacanal on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:03PM
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So where is the study which shows your method works better than all the other diets out there? Lots of people have diets that work for them, that fails totally when other people try it. If your plan is truly that successful it should be taking the world by storm.
Hard disagree.
As for practicality, weight loss is a function of thermodynamics. Caloric deficit == weight reduction. Doesn't matter your physiology.
As for maintainability, well that certainly depends on how a person is taught to diet. If you tell someone they need to eat less to lose weight (which is what almost every diet does) then, yes, it will be hard to maintain. If you tell someone to eat more (low calorie) food then weight loss is easy.
Most obese, untrained people will very readily drop tons of fat weight with little stimulus.
When I diet (whether the intention is gaining or losing weight) I'm probably eating 2x as much food as an obese person who is wondering to themselves "why is my metabolism so slow?". It's not. The foods I eat just contain less energy than the foods they're eating.