Best weight-loss tip

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Tamie_Girl
Tamie_Girl Posts: 218 Member
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Awesome read... short article that explains best weight loss tip.

My single best weight-loss tip
November 4 2018
By Dr. Jason Fung, MD

https://www.dietdoctor.com/my-single-best-weight-loss-tip?fbclid=IwAR1mcP9hiHSVdPoDmqxu0UbvPUCyWYyK8D-8F68cWrneqTaG-63Nk9Gxd48


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  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,395 Member
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    I'm following, just because this will get interesting...
  • _aenyeweddien_
    _aenyeweddien_ Posts: 102 Member
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    It is interesting and I think it might be true for some people, even though most here will still say it's only about kcal in kcal out and nothing else......
  • smolmaus
    smolmaus Posts: 442 Member
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    How do people take him seriously when he contradicts himself in like paragraph 3
    We become hungry and eat. If we deliberately restrict caloric intake, then our total energy expenditure will decrease. The result is still the same – weight gain.

    So it is energy expenditure that causes weight changes then Jason. Neat.
  • somethingxcompletelyxdifferent
    somethingxcompletelyxdifferent Posts: 14 Member
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    I love bell bottoms :#
  • 88olds
    88olds Posts: 4,466 Member
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    #1 = Food diary

    2 = Patience
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,442 Member
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    88olds wrote: »
    #1 = Food diary and food scale

    #2 = Patience

    FIFY
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,874 Member
    edited January 2019
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    kimny72 wrote: »
    Unfortunately, Fung is either wrong about what insulin actually does, or is purposefully misleading about what insulin does. His theories around insulin have been debunked. Considering he is a nephrologist (kidney specialist), the fact that his theories totally contradict what an endocrinologist or diabetes specialist would tell you should be highlighted.

    Look, if eating LCHF helps you lose weight, that's awesome. But basing anything on Jason Fung is misguided. There are lots of great reasons to try low carb if you're thinking about it, and plenty of people find it helps them stick to their calorie goal while controlling appetite/cravings.

    My best weight loss tip is to use a few weeks of accurate and consistent logging to figure out the right way of eating that will make it easy for you to be happy, energetic, and satisfied at the right calorie level for the rest of your life. :smile:

    Belaboring the bolded...

    If you eat something and insulin rises...congratulations...you're healthy and your body is doing exactly what it should be doing. Insulin regulates blood sugar and delivers energy to every cell in your body...it is not a "fat storage" hormone. It allows your body to use glucose for immediate use or store glucose glucose for later use...like when you're between meals, exercising, or your blood sugar is otherwise low.

    A healthy person really doesn't need to worry about this...I lost 40 Lbs just fine and very easily without worrying about the insulinz...
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,013 Member
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    elisa123gal wrote: »
    I didn't read the article.. but there is more to weight loss than cico. if it worked like many of you claim. why do you have such a hard time losing weight? I realize this is a calorie counting site..and it is a path and it does work for many people. but if. people lost simply be deficit eating..no one would ever plateau

    I didn't find it difficult. My plateaus were most likely water weight fluctuations or lax logging, which I quickly corrected once I recognized.

    For some people there are confounding factors that can make CICO numbers more difficult to pin down, but consistent logging and understanding that the initial numbers are just a starting point you may need to patiently tweak helps one work through that.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
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    elisa123gal wrote: »
    I didn't read the article.. but there is more to weight loss than cico. if it worked like many of you claim. why do you have such a hard time losing weight? I realize this is a calorie counting site..and it is a path and it does work for many people. but if. people lost simply be deficit eating..no one would ever plateau

    I also never plateaued. I did have issues gaining weight and stalled, but that was because I wasn't eating enough to gain at one point. If the above article was true, then in order to gain weight people who struggle would simply have to spike insulin regularly thought the day.. so a handful of candy every hour or so without having to get into a surplus. It doesn't work like that however.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,442 Member
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    cmriverside wrote: »
    BalCalories2.png

    Oooh, that's a good one! I'm adding it to my stash.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 33,961 Member
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    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    cmriverside wrote: »
    BalCalories2.png

    Oooh, that's a good one! I'm adding it to my stash.

    Seems such a simple concept. Why make it more complicated?

    Oh yeah. Humans.
  • h7463
    h7463 Posts: 626 Member
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    O boy...what decade was he born? If he only knows the 70s from pictures, he didn't know that this is about the time when people would starve themselves, just to fit into skinny Levis...which were best fitted wet in the bathtub... Pictures don't tell any dirty diet secrets...and we wouldn't spread them out on social media, either! :D

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