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Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by exfatloss on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:44PM (#34931886)
Well, I've tried it. I've lost tons of weight, but never with exercise. So it's not cope, it's just a matter of science.

> It’s extremely obvious that doing something like running every day (if it leads to a calorie deficit) will make you lose fat.

But what if it doesn't because your body is a self-regulating dynamic system that changes energy partitioning and intake demands based on output?

Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by trpv on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:07PM (#34932096)
If you spend more energy than your body takes in, there is no way you don’t lose weight, no matter what your body does with it.

If someone isn’t losing weight on a caloric deficit, they’re not tracking their food intake and exercise properly.

Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by josephcsible on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:58PM (#34932014)
Your body can't magic up energy out of nothingness. If you reduce your caloric intake enough, you'll always lose weight.
Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by exfatloss on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:14PM (#34932164)
So you're saying science is wrong? Cause I ran the experiment and it failed.

The reason is, of course, that your body can downregulate energy expenditure according to energy intake. I've observed my body downregulate to about 1,000kcal/day. No fat loss on a 1kkcal/day OMAD diet for 2 months straight. No exceptions.

If you get below the bare minimum (say 1kkcal/day for me) your body will start shutting down pretty essential systems like the immune system, you won't be able to concentrate, sleep will be messed up.

Yes, I've done all these experiments, obviously.

Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by josephcsible on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:26PM (#34932276)
> So you're saying science is wrong? Cause I ran the experiment and it failed.

So by "science", you mean your n=1 "experiment" and not conservation of energy?

Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by exfatloss on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:50PM (#34932475)
Yes, of course. Only takes 1 experiment to disprove a hypothesis, remember?

Conservation of energy is a whole other story and I don't see how it's related to fat loss.