Broken Metabolism? Is this real?

kshama2001

minniemoo1972 wrote: »

The daily mail have a report today that states doctors have found out people UNDERESTIMATE their calorie intake by more than 50% so those claiming 2000 cal are actually eating more than 3k....they "forget" snacks and highly underestimate meals outside of the home. If you aren't weighing and logging chances are you're forgetting and underestimating

Here's the Daily Mail article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3729060/Why-dieters-denial-People-underestimate-eat-50.html

And the study: http://38r8om2xjhhl25mw24492dir.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16-07-12-Counting-Calories-Final.pdf

... we conclude that:

1. National surveys are under-estimating our true calorie intake. There are two main reasons why we believe this is the case:

• The reported level of calorie consumption is too low to sustain our current weight even if we were only doing the minimum possible level of physical activity. In other words, if we were consuming this few calories, we would be losing weight as a nation, not gaining it.
• The studies using Doubly Labelled Water, the gold standard for measuring energy expenditure, indicate that as a population we are consuming 30% to 50% more calories than the levels reported in official statistics (see Figure 1).

kshama2001

Along those lines, who has a link to the British video of the woman who thought her metabolism was broken but the double labeled water test showed she was just eating more than she thought and her metabolism was fine?

extra_medium

"Broken metabolism" is a term that companies use who want to sell you some product or system that is supposed to jump start your metabolism or something. Your metabolism never stops, or you'd be dead. You just have to start weighing everything you eat and logging everything.