Can some food spike your metabolism?
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The only thing that will increase your metabolism is to increase your lean muscle mass. don't have to be a body builder, just workout (yes walking works) on a consistent basis and over time you will build more muscle.
This confuses me. I thought you couldn't gain muscle in a deficit. Does just getting stronger have this benefit?
getting stronger =/= more lean body mass. While I am here what muscles do you build walking on a regular basis?
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Another possibility is that your scale uses batteries, which are weakening and providing false readings. Mine has done that.
Have you checked your weight on more than one scale?0 -
Nope, your nut intake and weightloss was a coincidence.
Since you are a numbers guy, you should realize that this magical thing people call metabolism is just your Total Daily Energy Expenditure. You can increase it by gaining muscle (wouldn't have made a noticeable difference in the couple of days), gaining weight in general, moving more or running hot. (Spike a fever and you'll burn more calories. Obviously, it is very uncomfortable and generally not healthy or advised.)0 -
EatsNotTreats wrote: »EatsNotTreats wrote: »Of course, send me a private message proving that you are serious about the question you asked. Then I'll decide if I'll elaborate.
Translation: "I don't know jack **** but if you'll PM me, I'll try and sell you something."
No need to get all worked up.
Not worked up at all.
Just spotting and tagging for the lurkers, that's all.
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EatsNotTreats wrote: »yopeeps025 wrote: »EatsNotTreats wrote: »EatsNotTreats wrote: »Of course, send me a private message proving that you are serious about the question you asked. Then I'll decide if I'll elaborate.
Translation: "I don't know jack **** but if you'll PM me, I'll try and sell you something."
No need to get all worked up. I must have really made you feel threatened by that post. Ok, just so everyone calms down and people don't lose their cool, no need to PM me.
Because there is no such thing. People losing there cool. I am laughing FYI.
Ok, the lack of understanding sarcasm is getting boring. You guys used to be better at this.
well how can someone with 75 post be knowing for sarcastic post?
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OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
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EatsNotTreats wrote: »yopeeps025 wrote: »EatsNotTreats wrote: »yopeeps025 wrote: »EatsNotTreats wrote: »EatsNotTreats wrote: »Of course, send me a private message proving that you are serious about the question you asked. Then I'll decide if I'll elaborate.
Translation: "I don't know jack **** but if you'll PM me, I'll try and sell you something."
No need to get all worked up. I must have really made you feel threatened by that post. Ok, just so everyone calms down and people don't lose their cool, no need to PM me.
Because there is no such thing. People losing there cool. I am laughing FYI.
Ok, the lack of understanding sarcasm is getting boring. You guys used to be better at this.
well how can someone with 75 post be knowing for sarcastic post?
Ok fair enough, I'll let up on you guys for now. Just because this is turning into a hijack-athon. Let's get the thread back on track. Go ahead. Proceed to negate effects of diet on metabolism so you can "save" the OP from false claims. I shall graciously stand aside. I'll see you on some other thread.
once a troll always a troll.
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OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.0 -
MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
and a very slow RMR
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
I may have worded it wrong but I have heard that adding more calories can help.0 -
peppers and hot sauce seemed to help me
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
Because the world is full of people giving bad advice on topics they know little about.
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
Because the world is full of people giving bad advice on topics they know little about.
Oh then I guess when I added more calories by a little and started losing again I guess it was just a fluke...ok thanks
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Anything that perceivably, temporarily increased your metabolic rate would have disastrous consequences for heart rate and body temperature.0
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
Because the world is full of people giving bad advice on topics they know little about.
Oh then I guess when I added more calories by a little and started losing again I guess it was just a fluke...ok thanks
LOL like he said giving out bad advice.
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EatsNotTreats wrote: »
How can you state this and not give examples?EatsNotTreats wrote: »YES! certain combos of diet and certain types of exercise can absolutely spike your metabolism.
Oh, easy. By just typing the sentence on to the keyboard and hitting Post Reply
I'm going against the grain here... but I LOVE this response.0 -
MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
Because the world is full of people giving bad advice on topics they know little about.
Oh then I guess when I added more calories by a little and started losing again I guess it was just a fluke...ok thanks
Or it could be that you don't understand what is going on, and are thereby attributing a temporary "success" to the wrong factors.
Anyway, you've clearly made up your mind, and it's not my job to convince you otherwise. Further discussion can wait until you start your inevitable "OMG I've tried everything and I'm totally stalled!@!@!@!!!" thread.
Cheers.
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Ok, so it's not exactly a food, and not an all the time food at that...
but what about Montana's finest uncut coke?
Doesn't that spike metabolism?0 -
Nothing I know of can speed up your metabolism but there are foods that will effect thermogenesis, thus burning more calories as your body heats up or make you burn more energy due to activity increase.0
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
I may have worded it wrong but I have heard that adding more calories can help.
Because you were give information by someone based on false ideas. You might see a reduction in weight after an increase or a cheat meal/day due to relieving some stress and having a reduction in cortisol but increasing isn't making you burn more fat.MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
Because the world is full of people giving bad advice on topics they know little about.
Oh then I guess when I added more calories by a little and started losing again I guess it was just a fluke...ok thanks
The problem is you accepted information just because and then when you try to pass it off to others you might be asked to explain it but you won't be able to
Thank you for the first part of your reply....the second part well it is what it is, it happened with me when I added more calories and that's what I said didn't try to come up with anything else just my experience that's all, didn't look to start anything...sorry.
Ok well since you apparently know more then me with the amount of posts you have clearly you have been here a while....what is with the whole Eat More to Lose More?? I mean it contradicts weight loss no? Unless I am not understanding it fully which is entirely possible hence why I am asking.
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obscuremusicreference wrote: »bonniemasson wrote: »I've been lead to believe that a cup of Green Tea between half and hour to an hour after a meal can increase the speed of the breakdown of food in your stomach. Not sure if it actually increases metabolism (maybe because of the caffeine) or if it just helps the physical breakdown in the stomach. May need further research to corroborate that!
Why would you want the food in your stomach to digest faster? You would just be hungry again sooner, right? Not trying to be rude, just trying to understand your post.
I find making a cup of green tea to be good for filling my stomach and keeping me busy when I'm not truly hungry, but that's about it.
I think the theory is that food sitting around in your stomach can't be good for metabolism. And maybe if it digest faster, and you eat more, than your metabolism increases? Not claiming this as fact. I just think a lot of people think this based on those people that eat, eat, eat all the time but are still skinny as heck.
Also, not everyone here has the same goals. When I first came here I was trying to eat as much as possible and increase my calories in an attempt to lose weight (because that's what I was told I needed to do). I feel full almost all the time, which was hindering that goal. It possibly would have been easier if my food was able to digest faster. But as a regular green tea drinker, I don't think this actually works anyways.0 -
MomTo3Lovez wrote: »...what is with the whole Eat More to Lose More?? I mean it contradicts weight loss no?
That book is about losing a lot of weight, which takes a long time. The book doesn't claim that eating more will result in faster weight loss - it claims that eating at smaller deficits (ie losing weight slower) will be easier for people to maintain over a longer period of time, thereby leading to more weight loss over the long run.
The premise is completely consistent with CICO, which tells us that eating more leads to slower weight loss.
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Well, that's pretty simple, it's the same as go slower to go faster in auto racing.MomTo3Lovez wrote: »....what is with the whole Eat More to Lose More??
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »MomTo3Lovez wrote: »OP I know you said you added calories. Is it possible you miscalculated? I find fatty foods like nuts sometimes fill me up longer and I actually eat less calories. I am not doubting you, just that I haven't heard of losing by eating more.
He may have been in too much of a deficit and adding more calories might have helped with some of the weight loss.
Biology doesn't work that way. "Too much of a deficit" results in rapid weight loss - always.
So then when I was stalled in my weight loss why was I told to play around with the calories with adding more calories??
Because the world is full of people giving bad advice on topics they know little about.
Oh then I guess when I added more calories by a little and started losing again I guess it was just a fluke...ok thanks
Or it could be that you don't understand what is going on, and are thereby attributing a temporary "success" to the wrong factors.
Anyway, you've clearly made up your mind, and it's not my job to convince you otherwise. Further discussion can wait until you start your inevitable "OMG I've tried everything and I'm totally stalled!@!@!@!!!" thread.
Cheers.
Yeah since people give out bad advice you won't be seeing any of those threads....thanks though and it's not like when I made that comment there was any added as to why it could have happened...which did come later on and made more sense. My reply would have been different if there was more to it then "people giving bad advice..." and left it at that without going further into it, that's why I replied the way I did that's all....I can't learn if no one tells me.
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MomTo3Lovez wrote: »...what is with the whole Eat More to Lose More?? I mean it contradicts weight loss no?
That book is about losing a lot of weight, which takes a long time. The book doesn't claim that eating more will result in faster weight loss - it claims that eating at smaller deficits (ie losing weight slower) will be easier for people to maintain over a longer period of time, thereby leading to more weight loss over the long run.
The premise is completely consistent with CICO, which tells us that eating more leads to slower weight loss.
Ah ok well that makes more sense to me when you put it like that. Thanks
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