Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
by melling on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:33AM
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I’m more than a decade older than you.
that’s what my girlfriend said: “Can’t lose weight after a certain age”
She looked at me one day when I was down around 25 pounds and declared “It does work”
Next thing I know, she lost 15 pounds.
Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
by WastingMyTime89 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:56AM
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I think people feel hunger very differently.
When I want to lose wait I just stop eating lunch until I start to feel it makes me sluggish. I can tell I should probably eat but that’s an easy to ignore signal.
My ex girlfriend felt hunger as an all consuming normal activity ending feeling.
Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
by Analogbullfrog on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:59AM
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Women react differently to things like intermittent fasting given the vastly different hormonal profile to men. I’m much like your ex (I can’t think properly until I feel full, which means a significant breakfast) and anecdotally I have noticed that men seem more likely to go for longer fasting periods. Women’s bodies really don’t like to think they’re starving.
This is one of the useful lessons of age: you essentially get to experience living in more than one body within your lifetime. Younger-me would have posted the same confident advice as you did, and it would have seemed just as intuitively obvious - how could it be wrong when I experienced it myself! But in practice for someone with a different metabolism (at any age) it’s deeply unhelpful, even demoralizing.