Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue - POSTED ON: Jul 27, 2017
Whatever method one chooses as a “Diet”… including Diets that are called:
… this Truth always remains. When a body with excess fat consistently takes in LESS food (meaning: calories within one or more of the three macronutrients) THAN IT USES as energy, that body will access stored fat for energy. The process of losing excess fat takes a long time.
Weight-loss diets ultimately fail approximately 95% of the time. This means that most people fail to lose very much weight on any type of diet, and very few manage to maintain any long-term weight loss. Losing weight and losing fat isn’t exactly the same thing. However most doctors, nutritionists, dietitians ... and the people who follow their advice ... don’t clearly distinguish the process of reducing body fat from the process of reducing body weight. Most people sort of KNOW that body weight and body fat are different, and vaguely understand that the scale can register body weight higher due to “water gain”.
To understand the difference between these two things, it is important to understand that there are two principal components of body weight. We can label these two: constant weight and variable weight.
Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections - POSTED ON: Jul 09, 2017
The Best Online Calorie Calculator, According to Science. But it might not work for you.
Another free online calorie calculator, the Body Weight Planner, is now available to the public after several years of being used as a research tool for scientists at the National Institutes of Health. This one is noteworthy because its algorithms were validated in several controlled weight loss studies in human beings, and because it takes into account a person's slowing metabolism. Kevin Hall, a scientist at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, created the tool. Dr. Hall says the 3,500-calorie rule is accurate only if a pound of human fat is burned in a lab. However, unlike a lab, the body is not a static environment, and instead adapts when a person changes their diet and exercise. As a person diets and loses weight, the body slows the metabolism in an effort to conserve energy. As a result, eating 500 fewer calories a day leads to slightly less weight loss as time goes on. Instead of 3,500 fewer calories, over 12 months, a person will need to eat 7,000 fewer calories to burn a pound of fat. Dr. Hall said that the biggest flaw with the 3,500-calorie-rule is that it assumes weight loss will continue in a linear fashion over time. "That's not the way the body responds. The body is a very dynamic system, and a change in one part of the system always produces changes in other parts.” He admits that dieters may be “bummed out” by news that they must double their efforts at reducing calories. “But we believe it's better to have an accurate assessment of what you might lose, that way you don't feel like a failure if you don't reach your goal.” Dr. Hall added that very few people seem to be able to keep losing weight after 12 months. The BWP calculates how many calories a day a person should eat to achieve their weight loss goals in a certain time (for example, to lose 10 lbs within a year). The link can always be found here in DietHobby, under RESOURCES, Links, Body weight Calculator - NIH (Timeline Projections). The NIH bills the planner as a cutting-edge tool that will empower people to take their health into their own hands, but research on the success of such calculators and trackers is mixed. Although the federal government is to be praised for its official nod toward the utility of trackers and calculators, human beings themselves are not “simple machines” who operate on a calories in, calories out basis.
Endurance - POSTED ON: Jul 07, 2017
Endurance is the ability to do something difficult for a long time. Lie: A diet is temporary Believing this lie is the biggest mistake that obese people make. Obese people convince themselves that they will change their eating BEHAVIORS for a relatively short period of time, … until they see the weight RESULTS they want. The truth is that changing one’s diet must be a permanent and ongoing activity. It takes just as much, or more, effort to keep lost weight off, as it does to lose that weight initially. A Marathon isn’t just a 26 mile race. The definition of “Marathon” includes ANY endurance contest, ANY activity that is characterized by great length or concentrated effort. The length of a diet Marathon is “for the rest of one’s life”. The dieting Marathon doesn’t end when one reaches “goal” weight, because as soon as the desired weight-goal number appears, the task of maintenance begins. Maintenance of weight-loss requires continual, permanent, ongoing effort. The “Finish Line” is crossed at death. The “health and wellness” marketing industry publicizes the Lie, and actively works to conceal this unpopular truth. However, that Truth continues to exist, and it is visible to anyone who chooses to look beyond the B.S. mirage and examine the actual facts that exist in reality.
For a better understanding, see: Running Down the Up Escalator.
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Reality Bites - POSTED ON: Jul 01, 2017
For obese or reduced-obese people, weight-loss or maintenance of weight-loss takes an ongoing Awareness of their eating Behaviors and the Results of those eating Behaviors. It requires consistently following SOME METHOD of conscious eating Behavior that restricts calories to an amount which is the same-or-less as the amount used by that individual body.... ....Together with a consistent and precise METHOD of measuring the ongoing weight Results of that eating Behavior.
Here, the “rose” represents a thin or normal-sized body. The “thorn” is restricted calorie eating (Behavior), and a scale or other measuring tool (Result).
Obese or reduced-obese people who are not courageous enough to “grasp the thorn” need to abandon their desire for the “rose”, which is a thin or normal-sized body.
Reality, take it or leave it, But I won’t be joining those who choose to spend their lives in the Forest waiting for the Unicorns to appear.
Is it a Plateau? - POSTED ON: Jun 19, 2017
When we talk about plateaus we are talking about lack of WEIGHT loss, but the goal is really FAT loss. Unfortunately, weight and fat loss don't coincide, especially at the beginning of a diet when the body’s water balance is altered by the smaller amounts of food or new foods that you are eating. During the first few weeks of losing weight, a rapid drop is normal. In part, this is because when you cut calories, the body gets needed energy initially by releasing its stores of glycogen, a type of carbohydrate found in the muscles and liver. Glycogen is partly made of water, so when glycogen is burned for energy, it releases water, resulting in weight loss that's mostly water. This effect is only temporary. Everyone wants, and hopes for, fast weight-loss. Unscrupulous “experts” … in books and advertising ... promise dieters more weight-loss than is possible. It is only possible for the human body to lose a certain limited average amount of fat per week. Also the sharp decrease in weight that often happens during the first week or two of dieting raises false and unrealistic expectations that this fast initial weight-loss rate will continue throughout the following weeks. It’s an unfortunate fact that the bodies of most women max out at an average of about 2 pounds of fat loss a week, and even this only happens with very active dieting. Below are calculator chart examples demonstrating this fact. So if you have 20 pounds of real fat to get rid of, it will probably take at least 10 weeks, and it often takes 20 or 30 weeks for even a very successful dieter to lose 20 pounds of fat. After dieting for a while, a woman’s weight can go up and down by 3 pounds between one day and the next ... because of changes in hydration and water balance, ... and for some women, menstrual cycle hormones make water change weight even more than this. This daily change in water weight makes it genuinely hard to see the comparatively small loss of an ongoing one or two pounds of fat loss per week. There are many of methods of dieting … including low-calorie, low-fat, low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic, intermittent fasting (i.e. everything from fasting between meals to long-term fasting), whole foods, unprocessed foods, food exchanges, portion control etc. ...
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