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For decades, people who are overweight have been given simple advice: move more and eat less.
Because “eat less” isn’t just reductionist, it’s wrong…
If people are having trouble with weight it’s a lot easier to eat more to lose it.
Just instead of your typical diet, you should be eating as much high fiber low calorie food as possible. Modern ultra processed food is ridiculously calorie dense and easily digestible. So you can eat a single meal that has all your daily calories, and then legitimately have an empty stomach a few hours later and your body’s instincts say to go find that calorie dense food again while you can.
If you’re eating a bunch of fiber (beans, sauerkraut, greens, etc) you can literally eat as much of that stuff as you want and lose weight, because you’re not going to feel hungry while that stuff sits in your belly. It’s a lot easier to resist high calorie snacking when your stomach is full than empty.
With the huuuggge bonus of your body won’t think it’s starving from having an empty stomach, and helping get bloodsugar under control from the slow abortion of nutrients.
This legit great advice, but eating a ton of beans, kraut and greens will cause SO MUCH FARTING.
The thing is, eat less and move more is the correct answer. That’s just the harsh reality of physics: if your body doesn’t get enough food energy for what it needs, it’s going to go for its own energy reserves - i.e.fat.
It’s factually true. But if it worked, we would know by now and obesity would be uncommon.
Eating less calories.
When people say “eat less” they fall into the trap of not eating and their body goes into starvation mode where its highest priority is maintaining fat reserves even at the point of limiting energy making exercise harder.
They’re working against themselves.
High fiber food takes forever to digest, because blood sugar steadily increases as you digest it, your body is happy. It’s not going to tell you that eating is the most important thing and if you don’t you’re gonna die.
But if it worked, we would know by now and obesity would be uncommon.
I legitimately can’t tell if you suddenly agreed with me or what just happened there…
I’m saying the “common sense” method isn’t just ineffective, it’s making it harder to lose weight.
If the “common sense” method worked, we wouldn’t be double chin deep in an obesity epidemic. Because very few people want to be obese.
There is no such thing as starvation mode. At least not how you’re using it. And while we are at it, exercise is NOT required for weight loss (for health, yes, to lose weight, no).
Weight loss is simple. It’s just basic math. Calories in vs calories out. Period.
Now, with that said, it’s simple, but not easy to do.
There is no such thing as starvation mode
You sure?
Starvation response in animals (including humans) is a set of adaptive biochemical and physiological changes, triggered by lack of food or extreme weight loss, in which the body seeks to conserve energy by reducing metabolic rate and/or non-resting energy expenditure to prolong survival and preserve body fat and lean mass.[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response
A reduction in basal metabolic rate means it feels harder to complete everyday tasks, and makes actual exercise feel impossible.
Again, I said not how you’re using it. Skipping lunch will not induce “starvation mode”. Consuming 300kcal a day for weeks/months will because your body is literally trying to keep itself alive.
I stop reading when I get to something blatantly false.
But if you don’t understand how it’s easier to eat less with a full stomach than an empty one, just off common sense…
Some people just care too much about this topic to listen to logic
The silver lining is they’re usually highly opinionated because they don’t like I erweight people, so there’s no harm if I stop explaining and block them.
Especially when it’s a year old zombie account, makes me think you had to log into this one because you know I’ve already block cked your main account
The Importance of not skipping breakfast: a review (2021)
Skipping dinner was identified as a significant predictor of weight gain…(2021)
Tldr, Reduction in calorie intake as a sole measure does nothing or harms you.
