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Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by vkazanov on Saturday February 25, 2023 @04:44AM (#34935323)
Metabolism changes is something like going down from 2100 maintenance calories to 1900 calories. A donut is /at least/ 300+ calories. Age-related metabolism changes are also not that serious.

I've seen people losing 40kg (120kg to 80kg) by just walking and counting calories. It's the last 5-6 kg that are harder than the first 20kg is almost trivial to lose - one all the right habits are in place.

And habits are the hardest part. It's not the body, not laws of thermodynamics, it's just your habits (most of the time).

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Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by crazygringo on Saturday February 25, 2023 @01:57PM (#34939357)
No, it's more like going from ~2500 maintenance to ~1400 cal/day before your body finally decides to start burning fat instead of lowering its metabolism further. At least for me.

Obviously different people are different.

And it has utterly nothing to do with habits, you can see my other comment. It's about the whether you can even manage the other health consequences you suffer from your metabolism being so low.

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Re:Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed by vkazanov on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:37AM (#34953720)
1400 a day? For an immobilised hospital patient- maybe. It's like not moving at all! How would your body compensate for it?

Given lightweight excercise (walking,kettlebells, etc) that's almost impossible!

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