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Tamie_Girl
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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
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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I'm following, just because this will get interesting...1
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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......4
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Got as far as "Dr. Jason Fung" Nope. Nope, nope, nope.
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How do people take him seriously when he contradicts himself in like paragraph 3We 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.4 -
I love bell bottoms3
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#1 = Food diary
2 = Patience4 -
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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.5 -
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.
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...3 -
Nope. Stop spreading that trash. Our family doctor recommended Dr. Fung's "wisdom" to my pre-diabetic husband and now he's even more firmly against reducing his calorie intake for weight loss than ever, utterly convinced that he just needs to eat healthy (whatever that means anyway).
For weight loss, it doesn't matter what you eat, it only matters how much you eat. That's it.
Husband and I are a great example of this: he's vegetarian and eats way "healthier" than I do but he's carrying 45lbs more than he should and is pre-diabetic. I, OTOH, eat like a trash panda, consuming anything I want that gets within arm's reach as long as it doesn't exceed my calorie allotment and I have a middle of the normal range BMI, I am not pre-diabetic nor do I suffer from any form of malnutrition.
BTW, I spent 20 years as an overweight vegetarian utterly convinced I'd lose weight if I just ate healthy enough too. It was only after I started counting calories and changed my diet to what satiates me within my calorie allotment that I managed to get back to the size I was in my teens.14 -
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 plateau12
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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've lost using CICO and never plateaued. I haven't had a hard time losing weight. I weigh my food on my food scale, log it into my food diary, and stay within my calorie target. Easy peasy.7 -
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.1 -
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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
Actually, no there isn't.
There are many ways and methods to make it easier to balance weight loss or maintenance or weight gain, but the basic math of CICO is always correct.
And really? We've had probably 100,000 pages posted on this. It isn't refutable...no matter how hard you try to argue.7 -
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.2 -
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cmriverside wrote: »
Oooh, that's a good one! I'm adding it to my stash.1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »
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.3 -
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!2
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