Replies
-
Calculated BMR and actual TDEE merge as diets progress. Bodybuilders invented reverse dieting to counter this phenomenon. I am experiencing it, unless there is something outside of diet and exercise I am missing (I am meticulous about counting calories). I probably should have provided a link that explains the concept in…
-
My goal is to achieve what reverse dieting claims to do, which is to first (1) find out what my "true" maintenance calories are and then (2) begin losing weight from the higher baseline. I am no longer losing fat at BMR +~200.
-
Yes, I am using a food scale. My calories are consistent and accurate, and slightly above BMR (100-300 above per day)
-
I don't understand what the actual claim of the "Whoosh Effect" is. I think it is a false rumor. It would seem that the claim is that fat simply disappears from the cell, like a reservoir or a balloon draining, which is not how fat cell metabolism works. Fat cells are made up of fatty acid molecules - if even a few these…
-
I am calculating the calories I consume using this app (MyFitnessPal). I calculated my BMR using this website's BMR calculator, which apparently uses the Mifflin - St. Jeor equations. I know that there are other ways to calculate BMR, including doing it in a lab, but I have not used those other methods.
-
This link has a relevant concept to this thread, if you yo-yo (which I accidentally just did for 10 lbs after losing ~80). Thankfully someone from my gym explained reverse dieting to me and how it guides metabolism and why a low cal diet shouldn't last forever and how to go back to a normal cal diet…
