Why most dieters get it wrong

donyellemoniquex3

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



You're welcome.

omg that looks so good! lol

So I did the conversion and hopefully it's in yen.

The first one is $7 american and the second is $36 in american.

Yerp I'm American.

PepperWorm

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



You're welcome.

omg that looks so good! lol

So I did the conversion and hopefully it's in yen.

The first one is $7 american and the second is $36 in american.

Yerp I'm American.

I was so about to post the price! Isn't that nuts?!

rogerbosch

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.

I know I had to chose between clarity and ambiguity. Had I chosen to be clearer from the start, we wouldn't have 5 pages of comments, there would be less entertainment and we would not have known about crazy parfaits! My apologies for that.

YogaNikki

dafuq did I just read?

I just spit my water out laughing. True story.

rogerbosch

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.

Let's agree to disagree. It's a matter of tracking, not thinking about food all day long.

brower47

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.

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.

Let's agree to disagree. It's a matter of tracking, not thinking about food all day long.

Tracking is exactly what I do now and I don't find myself thinking about food all the time. I think about it right before I eat it, as I eat it and when I log it, then I go about the rest of my daily activities.

We agree, it's a matter of tracking.

donyellemoniquex3

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



You're welcome.


omg that looks so good! lol

So I did the conversion and hopefully it's in yen.

The first one is $7 american and the second is $36 in american.

Yerp I'm American.

I was so about to post the price! Isn't that nuts?!

Who would pay $36 for a freaking sundae ?

brower47

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:

They are plastic since they are displays. The price tags give it away. They wouldn't continually keep making them as they melted just so people could see what they looked like.

MyChocolateDiet

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



You're welcome.

Oh my googled result of the 2 steps forward and 3 steps back will go nicely with that...


it's a party now.

hookilau

Ooh this is some slap happy *kitten* :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Mother_Superior

MyChocolateDiet

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



You're welcome.


omg that looks so good! lol

So I did the conversion and hopefully it's in yen.

The first one is $7 american and the second is $36 in american.

Yerp I'm American.

I was so about to post the price! Isn't that nuts?!

Who would pay $36 for a freaking sundae ?

Duh asians! Didn't you see the asian style writing?

saschka7

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.

And this little anecdote is adding to your credibility HOW?

PepperWorm

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



You're welcome.

Oh my googled result of the 2 steps forward and 3 steps back will go nicely with that...


it's a party now.

YES.

AglaeaC

Grams ? You mean lbs.

No Dr. Mearing, I mean grams. I think after eating 400 lbs of chicken one could lay eggs...

You think? I think you should try to be sure.

AglaeaC

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...

I think you have to buy the ebook for $9.99.

Maybe he's a minimalist blogger. Lots of them make money selling ebooks and they live in hotels with only a backpack of belongings.

xoemmytee

Someone forgot to reveal their magic trick.

Maybe OP is part of the Magician's Alliance...

PepperWorm

Someone forgot to reveal their magic trick.

Maybe OP is part of the Magician's Alliance...

Can someone spot him in the group?

donyellemoniquex3

Someone forgot to reveal their magic trick.

Maybe OP is part of the Magician's Alliance...

Or the Illuminati / 4Chan