Why most dieters get it wrong

madrose0715

How freakin strange!

PepperWorm

So I googled "crazy parfait" for the shiggles. First picture:



You're welcome.

brower47

So the trick is 100 grams difference in chicken? Serious question.

No, this is just an example. The 'trick' is to change one thing that you control and that your body is not noticing.

Let me share some assumptions:

1. the main factor of weight loss/gain is food. Not cardio, not lifting, not sex.
2. everybody has a standard of maintenance.
3. changing this standard has an effect on your weight.
4. your body tries to adapt to the change so that the change becomes the new standard
5. by eating more if we gain and eating less if we lose we fool our body and thus be in control

Example:

Eat less - lose
Eat less - lose
Eat less - lose
Eat less - plateau
Eat more - gain
Eat more - gain
Eat more - plateau
Eat more - lose
Eat less - lose even more
Eat less - lose
etc.

It's like talking 3 steps forward and taking 2 back, or once in a while taking 4 back. Yes it's slow but it's progressively effective. As long as YOU know what you change, and your body doesn't.

The above requires a lot of thinking about your food which flies in the face of the third sentence of your OP.

Lowering your daily calorie intake makes you think about food. A lot. Thinking about food a lot makes you hungry.

VeggieKidMandy

So I googled "crazy parfait" for the shiggles. First picture:



You're welcome.

omg that looks so good! lol

saschka7

Someone forgot to reveal their magic trick.

Maybe this is the magic trick, as someone suggested:

"Trick your body?" what does that even mean? do you want me to pull a tomato from behind my ear and go "ho ho ho?"

kewpiecyster

Not thinking about food all the time led to me getting fat.

Logging and thinking about food has led to me getting less fat.

OPs point is not applicable in my case, at all. I'm thinking I'm not a special snowflake on this issue.

THIS!

MsEndomorph

So I googled "crazy parfait" for the shiggles. First picture:



You're welcome.

I'm in love.

_SABOTEUR_

Yeah, I'm still confused.

Can someone explain to me what the OP's "secret" is? All I'm getting is chicken curry and a 30 minute walk...

Every day for the rest of your life.

lovelyx091

So I googled "crazy parfait" for the shiggles. First picture:



You're welcome.

I want

saschka7

This thread gave me a migraine.

Me too. :laugh:

rogerbosch

Here's the science:

Oh I get it. You're eating below your maintenance calories so you're losing weight.

Awesome.

No, I'm eating averagely above it. Look, I once dated 4 girls at the same time and none of them believed me either. One of them had bad eye sight and one had problems with reading graphs… but what they all had in common was the pre-assumption that I HAD to be wrong. Well, turned out that they actually were only one girl with MPD, so I stopped bothering to debate all together.

Achrya

So I googled "crazy parfait" for the shiggles. First picture:



You're welcome.

And I wanna slam my face into this. Please bring to Hawaii asap, thanks.

MercuryBlue

So the trick is 100 grams difference in chicken? Serious question.

No, this is just an example. The 'trick' is to change one thing that you control and that your body is not noticing.

Let me share some assumptions:

1. the main factor of weight loss/gain is food. Not cardio, not lifting, not sex.
2. everybody has a standard of maintenance.
3. changing this standard has an effect on your weight.
4. your body tries to adapt to the change so that the change becomes the new standard
5. by eating more if we gain and eating less if we lose we fool our body and thus be in control

Example:

Eat less - lose
Eat less - lose
Eat less - lose
Eat less - plateau
Eat more - gain
Eat more - gain
Eat more - plateau
Eat more - lose
Eat less - lose even more
Eat less - lose
etc.

It's like talking 3 steps forward and taking 2 back, or once in a while taking 4 back. Yes it's slow but it's progressively effective. As long as YOU know what you change, and your body doesn't.

Ohhhhhhh.

Why didn't you just say that to begin with?

Wasted my limited mental energy on chicken curry and crazy parfaits. (Which will be tomorrow's dinner, no doubt!)

Ditto.

I don't mean to be mean, OP- but I really had a hard time understanding your point behind the presentation.

Wetcoaster

Reading all this makes me want to get drunk.

MercuryBlue

Here's the science:

Oh I get it. You're eating below your maintenance calories so you're losing weight.

Awesome.

No, I'm eating averagely above it. Look, I once dated 4 girls at the same time and none of them believed me either. One of them had bad eye sight and one had problems with reading graphs… but what they all had in common was the pre-assumption that I HAD to be wrong. Well, turned out that they actually were only one girl with MPD, so I stopped bothering to debate all together.

...okay, migraine just came back.

beachlover317

My body has been listening as my brain read this entire post. Now I can not experience the magic. :sad: :sad: :sad:

nomeejerome

Here's the science:

Oh I get it. You're eating below your maintenance calories so you're losing weight.

Awesome.

No, I'm eating averagely above it. Look, I once dated 4 girls at the same time and none of them believed me either. One of them had bad eye sight and one had problems with reading graphs… but what they all had in common was the pre-assumption that I HAD to be wrong. Well, turned out that they actually were only one girl with MPD, so I stopped bothering to debate all together.

hmmm....you use yourself as an example of science, use off the wall examples, use off the wall graphs....you remind me of someone......have you been sick with an unidentified illness lately?

lovelyx091

This thread gave me a migraine.

Me too. :laugh:

I already had a migraine, and this made it worse

da_bears10089

Here's the science:

Oh I get it. You're eating below your maintenance calories so you're losing weight.

Awesome.

No, I'm eating averagely above it. Look, I once dated 4 girls at the same time and none of them believed me either. One of them had bad eye sight and one had problems with reading graphs… but what they all had in common was the pre-assumption that I HAD to be wrong. Well, turned out that they actually were only one girl with MPD, so I stopped bothering to debate all together.

Ummmmm wut? This just took a whole new route of crazy

saschka7

So I googled "crazy parfait" for the shiggles. First picture:



You're welcome.

Is it me, or does every item in those parfaits looks as if it were made of plastic? That doesn't even look like real food! :noway: