Originally posted by jaden_2.0You lost 8 stone in 7 months?
The now closed coronavirus thread was rife with it. Denial of the science. Saying it was all exaggerated "bro science". Now this thread is rife with it.I lost 118lbs in 7 months without gastric band treatment.
It's not advice. It's a statement of 100% fact.
What did you do, cut out bacon, pizza, sweets etc. eat lower calories and exercise?
Originally posted by Blakemore
You lost 8 stone in 7 months?What did you do, cut out bacon, pizza, sweets etc. eat lower calories and exercise?
Walked 2 miles to work and 2 miles back over a 500ft hill 5 days a week and used Noom to track my calories to stay 500kcal under my resting maintainence and used the exercise to create a bigger deficit. Went out walking 6-8 miles on my days off.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0Funny, I've been thinking of doing something similar to that as I'm teetering on to being overweight.
Walked 2 miles to work and 2 miles back over a 500ft hill 5 days a week and used Noom to track my calories to stay 500kcal under my resting maintainence and used the exercise to create a bigger deficit. Went out walking 6-8 miles on my days off.
It's a no brainer when you think about it. Exercise more and eat less calories. Alternatively, make high intensity training a part of your routine and simply cut out the biggest culprits (simple sugars and saturated fats).
In fact, I think I'd easily lose weight just by eating mushrooms everyday.
Originally posted by Blakemore
Funny, I've been thinking of doing something similar to that as I'm teetering on to being overweight.It's a no brainer when you think about it. Exercise more and eat less calories. Alternatively, make high intensity training a part of your routine and simply cut out the biggest culprits (simple sugars and saturated fats).
In fact, I think I'd easily lose weight just by eating mushrooms everyday.
Before
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Most people do not set out to become overweight, it is usually the result of multiple compounding factors. Metabolism slows with age, so people burn fewer calories with the same level of activity. So someone can start gaining weight without having changed her behaviors in any way.She is moving the same and eating the same, so in her mind, her weight should stay the same. But her body is using energy differently, and she is slowly gaining weight.
And the signs of weight gain can be mistaken for other things. A pair of pants may suddenly feel tight, but maybe they shrunk in the wash. She may suddenly feel winded climbing a flight of stairs, but maybe she was just feeling run down that day. She may notice she has a double-chin, but maybe her skin is losing its elasticity with age.
The point is that most people experience these signs independently, not interdependently, so they do not realize they have the same cause until they gain enough weight for the weight itself to be entirely obvious.
But at that point, the weight gain is snowballing. Once the momentum is going in a particular direction, it takes a lot of effort to stop it, let alone turn it in the other direction.
And our bodies like to store fat, it is a survival mechanism against famine and starvation. So it is much easier to put it on than it is to take it off. Especially, since there is a significant delay between when you are full, and when your brain registers that you are full. So it is easy for people to not know they have overeaten until 20 minutes after they have finished.
Losing weight, particularly large amounts of weight, is a lot more difficult than "wash your hands," "wear a mask," "get a shot," etc. That is why it is not useful suggestion for managing COVID. It does not offer protection now, when it is needed, but years from now, when it is accomplished.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
There is a lot of misinformation about weight loss, and most of it seems plausible. That is why pseudo-science is dangerous, because many people cannot discern that it is not true.So people make earnest efforts, but they are doing strategies that do not work. And when it fails to produce results, because it was never going to produce results, they see it as a personal failure.
Not only do they get discouraged from trying again, but diet failures result in increased weight gain. That is why they are called "yo-yo diets."
So the end up in a worse position, heavier with a slower metabolism and a higher propensity to put on weight, than before they started. Do that enough times, and losing weight will seem impossible.
So if you are going to gain weight no matter what you do, why be miserable? Why starve yourself, and eat things you hate, and exercise to exhaustion just to gain weight? You may as well eat things you enjoy.
Obesity reflects a dogmatic hopelessness.
You wrote a lot, but I pretty much agree with all of it, so I hope you don't mind my short reply.
Originally posted by Blakemore
Stupidity is not an excuse.
Yes it is. For lots of things.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
I lost 118lbs in 7 months without gastric band treatment.It's not advice. It's a statement of 100% fact.
It is only healthy to lose 1–2 lbs. a week. To lose 118 lbs. in 28 weeks, you had to lose more than 4 lbs. a week. I do not know what you did, but it is not medically-advisable.
former fat guy here: fat people tend to shed fat way more quickly at first, because there's so damn much of it, no eating disorder required. following the same line of maths, obese would be quicker, morbidly obese being like warp-speed. When I went down to the lower end of "overweight", it slowed down to like 1 pound a week.
Not trying to preach bro science, and I'm admittedly going by experience and anecdotal evidence alone, since I'm not interested enough to search google
Retards are never happy. They tend to be miserable and jealous of other people's success because they can't figure out how to achieve anything.
They tend to laugh at other people a lot as well. Probably something along the lines of not being the biggest loser for a change, even if it's only for a short while.
Originally posted by Blakemore
Retards are never happy. They tend to be miserable and jealous of other people's success because they can't figure out how to achieve anything.They tend to laugh at other people a lot as well. Probably something along the lines of not being the biggest loser for a change, even if it's only for a short while.
Hey go easy on Bash.
Originally posted by Blakemore
Retards are never happy. They tend to be miserable and jealous of other people's success because they can't figure out how to achieve anything.They tend to laugh at other people a lot as well. Probably something along the lines of not being the biggest loser for a change, even if it's only for a short while.
Originally posted by cdtmYou literally just laughed at someone else to not feel like the biggest loser for a change, even if it was only short lived.
Hey go easy on Bash.
Don't change. 👆
Originally posted by Blakemore
Retards are never happy. They tend to be miserable and jealous of other people's success because they can't figure out how to achieve anything.They tend to laugh at other people a lot as well. Probably something along the lines of not being the biggest loser for a change, even if it's only for a short while.
nah, people with down syndrome in particular tend to be friendly and happy