What do y'all think about this diet/exercise plan?

JohnnyPenso

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

So, how many people were in the study you quoted from, but neglected to provide a citation or link for? I'll be shocked if it wasn't either
1) a pretty small number, not "a large group" or
2) it relied on individual recollections of past weight, past food intake, and probably even current food intake.

Science is also about replicable results. Was the study a one-off, or have other researchers been able to replicate the results?

I'll add my anecdote to Kriss's. I was obese for about 20 years before using calorie counting to lose 15% of my BW. Three years into maintenance, my NEAT is about 100 calories higher than it was when I first started losing the weight (based on my actual calorie intake both times, not on any calculator), and it's significantly higher than the averages predicted for someone with my stats. I have a desk job, no kids to chase around or anything else to make me especially active in my off hours, I log pretty much all the outside walking I do as "exercise," and I still have to tell MFP I'm "active" to get its estimate of my NEAT to be close to (but still about 200 calories under) my actual NEAT.

I lifted during the weight loss and first two and half years of maintenance, but with nearly enough consistency and progression to be gaining any meaningful amount of muscle.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673773/
Typical westerners take in 500,000 to 1,000,000+ calories a year and yet our average weight changes by a couple of thousand calories of stored energy. Obviously there's a mechanism at work that is balancing out energy input and output to some degree, and it must work on the downside and upside.
Attempts to sustain weight loss invoke adaptive responses involving the coordinate actions of metabolic, neuroendocrine, autonomic, and behavioral changes that “oppose” the maintenance of a reduced bodyweight. This phenotype is distinct from that opposing dynamic weight loss per se. The multiplicity of systems regulating energy stores and opposing the maintenance of a reduced body weight illustrate that body energy stores in general and fat stores in particular are actively “defended” by interlocking bioenergetic and neurobiological physiologies. Important inferences can be drawn for therapeutic strategies by recognizing obesity as a state in which the human body actively opposes the “cure” over long periods of time beyond the initial resolution of symptomatology.

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