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The solution to “I’m not losing weight” is absolutely NOT “eat more”. The entire premise of this website is “calories in versus calories out”. How could increasing intake ever result in more net losses?

Have used for years. You know how some people say they have self control problems? "I can't buy potato chips because I'll eat the whole bag" type thing? Well IF works well for those people - like me. IF means I don't "buy the bag". I don't have to exercise self control in portions when my portion is zero. Changing the…

Agreed! Well, wrinkles and grey hair aren't really confounders, they are co-linear with age. They also aren't a great examples of a flawed independent variable because they are in fact dependent on health; wrinkles and loss of pigment represent the lack of health of some body tissues, and unhealthy tissues should of course…

Personally my goals are: 1. maximize fitness, 2. burn lots of calories, 3. don't waste time accomplishing 1 and 2 (be efficient). The rowing machine (ergometer) uses almost every major muscle group in your body. It is an intense, demanding, total body workout. If I row, I don't have to worry about targeting this muscle…

We both know the answer to this question, but I'm failing to see the relevance. Smoking, like a lack-of-fitness, correlates with death. Lung cancer is one potential mechanism. It did largely eliminate confounding factors. That's the entire purpose of doing a study where n=122,000. To account for confounding by equally…

A "target" and a "limit" are not the same thing. Bring on the "woo"s I guess, but don't shoot the messenger, I didn't define the words.

How would you make this study more accurate when it already analyzes hundreds of thousands of data points? Big data = reliable data. Your coworker isn't wrong by the way. If we had to rank the health / life expectancy of athletes who smoke versus non-athletes who smoke, I'm quite confident the athletes would do better.…

Well your point represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the research. As has been pointed out, this demonstrates correlation and not causation. This paper does not say that if you "exercise enough" you can achieve the better outcomes. Those who are exercising less due to their health issues are more likely to die…

Okay then.

Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?

Why does it matter “why” someone is unfit? The study is pretty clear: lack of fitness correlates with risk of death. The “why” may inform interventions but doesn’t impact the outcome interaction, that lack of fitness may predict risk of death.

They’re testing aerobic fitness regardless of training regimen. Do you know a way to improve aerobic fitness without appropriate aerobic exercise?

That link doesn’t say anywhere that hyperglycaemia can cause DKA. In fact that link has a section actually titled “what causes DKA” which says the following:

I think you need to re-read my post. I know that hypo means low and hyper means high. I don't know why you think you're teaching me that hypoglycemia is dangerous when that's exactly what I wrote. Let this be clear: severe hypoglycemia, no matter the cause, is life threatening and an emergency. Severe hyperglycemia happens…

You’ve answered yourself here. Fasting and taking insulin is FAR more dangerous than accepting higher-than-average blood sugars. Obviously if you’re going to start fasting you should quit your insulin regimen (as a type 2 DM patient). Hypoglycemia kills in minutes, hyperglycaemia kills in decades.

Agreed! This is why IF works well for me. It’s more psychological rather than physiological.

Glucose management is WELL within the interests of a nephrologist. This is a curious line of attack. Fung isn't a bariatrician or an endocrinologist so he's not entitled to comment on those fields... well are YOU a bariatrician or endocrinologist by chance? If not, what right do you have to opine?

Speaking of scientific quackery, you probably have to actually READ the papers before you can rightfully criticize them. I read the paper, did you? Where do they claim a major scientific breakthrough? Allow me to quote from their concluding paragraph, bolded emphasis mine: I don't see what's so objectionable there.

Honestly the "weigh yourself once per week" plan always seems like a recipe for failure to me. Do you weigh every Monday, and Sunday you happened to indulge in some salty food? Oops, you may have lost fat, but your weight is up 2 pounds. Repeat the next week, and now your weight is only up 1 pound, but you've invested 2…

I think that the flattering light and camera angle in the picture on the right has an awful lot to do with her appearance, more so than just her weight. She also appears significantly leaner and more muscular on the right than in the middle.

I don’t see what about this picture is supposed to make BMI - a repeatedly, reliably validated population analysis metric - “BS”. Your interpretation of BMI rather than the actual metric seems to be at fault.

Good if you like large meals, easier to adhere to if you have a consistently busy lifestyle.

I agree with you that soda shouldn’t dehydrate you but your reasoning is pretty flawed. Intravenous Lasix is also 99% water but it sure as hell can dehydrate you!

And apples contain cyanide so you should stay far away from them!

I understand the perspective that using a food scale could appear so nit-picky as to be obsessive. I would re-frame that in the context of a recipe. Any serious baker weighs their ingredients because baking recipes are precise. Nobody challenges pastry chefs for their obsessive tendencies, they praise them for their…

There’s really no way around the fact that you need surgery. Gallstones do not go away on their own. Symptomatic gallstones are 5-8x more likely than asymptomatic stones to cause complications (cholangitis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis). Drugs and diets to dissolve gallstones don’t work effectively. This problem isn’t going…

I’m not calling you names, but I’m interested in IF and metabolism studies you can cite. Please post em if you’ve got em.

This is commonly stated. Nobody needs to lose weight because they’re chronically under-eating though. When people say this they usually need to tighten up their logging!

At this point the mods should lock this thread. The OP has seen her doctor, has had tests, has a plan. Meanwhile all the internet doctors here have diagnosed her with anxiety, PE, POTS, WPW, Afib, cardiac ischemia, a thyroid disorder and electrolyte imbalances. Maybe leave the diagnoses to the professionals? I can’t see…

It sounds like you are grossly under eating. Egg McMuffin = 290 cal Lean Cuisine frozen mean = 180 cal x 2 meals = 650 cal/day minus 2.5 hrs exercise. There are probably bigger issues with your plan than the sodium dose.