Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
by bumby on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:28PM
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A lot of eating is habitual, driven by social cues etc. E.g., anyone who is used to eating breakfast but skips it one day will feel like they are "starving", but if they skip it for two weeks they no longer get that hungry feeling in the morning because your body is no longer habitualized to release ghrelin at the same time.
>lowering metabolism
I believe this has been debunked. Your calories out is a function of calories in (e.g., protein takes more energy to metabolize than, say, glucose), but your body doesn't really downregulate it's metabolism the way it's been touted in the past.
>search in hopes of finding specific tricks that shut down
IMO, what consistently works is whatever "tricks" you use to reduce calories below what you burn. For some people, it's eliminating meat. For others, it's eating nothing but meat. For others, it's a flexible approach as long as they count calories. But the main commonality seems to be the reduction of calories (and movement away from the standard american diet).
>lowering metabolism
I believe this has been debunked. Your calories out is a function of calories in (e.g., protein takes more energy to metabolize than, say, glucose), but your body doesn't really downregulate it's metabolism the way it's been touted in the past.
>search in hopes of finding specific tricks that shut down IMO, what consistently works is whatever "tricks" you use to reduce calories below what you burn. For some people, it's eliminating meat. For others, it's eating nothing but meat. For others, it's a flexible approach as long as they count calories. But the main commonality seems to be the reduction of calories (and movement away from the standard american diet).