karl317 Member

I'm no expert, but I think the way most fitness apps lump in "exercise" calories to your total "eatable pool" is wrong for some people (and I wish it was configurable). Study after study state that exercise is a downright terrible way to lose weight - yet for some reason all the major fitness apps handle it this way…

Also, exercise is a pretty crappy way to lose weight. http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories There's over 60 studies cited in that article. Of course that isn't to say you SHOULDN'T exercise - everyone should, as it's probably the biggest thing you can do for your own longevity - but…

Probably so you don't overshoot your goal if I had to guess. I ate my "deficit" amount until I hit my goal, then immediately transitioned to "maintenance" calories, and inadvertently kept on losing. I overshot my goal by 10 pounds, and it was actually harder for me to figure out what my true "maintenance" calories were for…

If you're spending more than two minutes total time per day logging your food, then you need to embrace the technology a little more I think. I log religiously and it takes me so little time, I don't know why anyone *wouldn't* do it. What exactly is hard about a simple accounting of what you eat with a smartphone you're…

I'm not sure who the bigger idiot is here - the person who thought Kevin Hall was going to go into this study without any confirmation bias, or Gary Taubes for thinking that he might. Seriously, I don't know if Taubes approaching the subject from this angle was an act of bravery or stupidity. I understand *why* he would do…

Again, you clearly have not followed Fung's work. I will award you 1,000 internet points for the attempt. His criticism of the "First Law of Thermodynamics" isn't the first you'll find - and it certainly won't be the last. The First Law of Thermodynamics, despite being quoted *so rampantly* in fitness circles, is probably…

Oh come now, don't be coy. You read exactly none of his work, because if you did, you wouldn't have been likely to utter what you did. But oh well, there it is. Also, I can't seem to find your original post - the one I initially quoted. Strange, that... But I suppose there's a logical reason for it...

Ketogenic diets - any diet that allows your body to enter a state of nutritional ketosis. You won't find much love for it in the mfp forums because most of the mfp crowd is essentially rooted in the "eat less, move more" Dogma (which is fine too, there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat).

Another keto success story here as well. This is the only way I can eat and not have insane cravings. That sugar stuff is a helluva drug. 125lb gone, been eating at maintenance for several months. I have no intention of ever stopping. This is how I always want to eat.

2200/day maintenance (46yo 6'3") - dead on for me, but my exercise calories are a wash (around 1000 a day). If I eat into those significantly, I start to gain so I stay out of those.

I picked the very middle of my "Normal" BMI range - which for a 6'3" person is around 180lb. I overshot it by like 5lb and I look a little on the thin side, but it's fine. Everyone's just used to seeing me fat.

I can tell you what works for me (47yo, 6'4" man, 175lb eating at maintenance). I stick to the "sedentary" setting for daily fitness level in MFP (though I walk 8 miles a day, every day - that only accounts for 2.5hours of my day, so I guess I still am technically "sedentary" for the rest of the day). MFP tells me my…

I don't think anyone disputes that - but if the problem were that simple then we'd all be a healthy weight. But we aren't, and the problem is just not as simple as people make it out to be. I'm not saying people should start chiming in with the "me too's" and make excuses for why they're fat. I'm simply saying that the…

What's the criteria for calling CICO a success? What's the criteria for failure? You can find study after study that proves a calorie deficit results in weight loss - so clearly there is some truth to the "first law of thermodynamics", which seemingly everyone has suddenly become an expert. You can also take a look around…

"Net carbs" is a source of debate in the "keto" world. Since it's impossible to know whether any given food contains soluble versus insoluble fiber, a lot of people recommend you stick to "total carbs" when attempting to force nutritional ketosis (which makes sense, to me at least). There's also plenty of debate over…

There are two parts to "BMI". There's the math, and there's the judgment that people infer from the "range" they fall into. The math is the simple part that results in a number like "32.1" or "24". No one has a problem with this part it seems. What people seem to have a problem with is the judgment they assign to…

This is one of the most ridiculous questions ever posed. EVERY POSSIBLE MEANING for the word "Healthy" is 100% open to interpretation, and is completely *MEANINGLESS* when the term "healthy" lacks any and all context. For instance, if you are diabetic, and the ADA/FDA/NIH says it's "healthy" to eat 50+% of your calories…

I'll check them out... I'm a voracious reader and I've only read the two Taubes books and another called "in defense of food" on this subject. I've read a lot of the criticism on those 3 works, but a lot of it doesn't seem to hold up in my eyes (though some of it absolutely does). When I mix my own experience (102lb lost…

No, I'm saying that the information he provides is insightful - and I agree with some of it because the evidence is there (and no, I don't agree with all of it because there are things he wrote that don't make sense to me, or because he didn't make his case). You can go on and believe the NIH's proclamations as gospel if…

As with everything, you have to read the subject matter and come to your own conclusions. There will ALWAYS be someone trying to discredit someone who challenges the norm or what another believes to be true. The most you can do is take it all in and decide for yourself.

You can break it up in a number of ways. Some do the 5/2 thing. (5 feed days, 2 fast days) others do 18/6 (18h fast, 6h feed) or 23/1. There's several ways to break it up. I do 18/6 personally and verify ketosis with a simple ketostrip one morning a week to verify my schedule isn't off. I haven't gotten to maintenance yet,…

Except she isn't "right". She is correct in that it goes against the NIH's guidelines, but it is already well documented that the NIH's guidelines have little basis in modern science. Allow me to directly answer your question. "is 1200 calories not enough?" The simple answer is "1200 is enough for ME right now, given my…

Except it's not going against anything. It may go against the current thinking at the NIH, but the NIH is so far behind CURRENT research (at least with what it publishes as its recommended guidelines TODAY), you would be a fool to accept anything it publishes as a recommendation. These are the folks that mfp quote when you…

I am still, yes. And it's not that i'm disinterested in other people's approaches. I simply try to "take the emotion out of it". As an IT guy by trade, I am very much into hard data. Unfortunately, hard data doesn't always translate well in the realm of human physiology. I have seen time and time again where this results…

She speaks the truth.

800-1400 calories/day here (6'4", 47 year old male). Started at 300lb on Feb 12th, down 102lb today (welcome to onederland. Yay me!) I am the guy who everyone ridicules, usually by saying my methods are "dangerous", "unhealthy" or whatever because they drink the kool-aid in these forums rather than doing their own…

The jury is still out. Give 'em their day in court. They already have consumer reports on their side, and they retested after news of the suit (to the same positive result). Conspiracy or not, I trust consumer reports. Not some study funded by lawyers.

You're clearly not reading my posts, so what's the point of citing more sources you won't read? Go back and re-read my replies in this thread. There are 4 books that cover this problem in gory detail that I have read thus far, and they cite an amazing amount of sources. I listed them all for you and everyone else in here…

Those statements are both half truths, as has been proven over and over again by science. At least based on the extensive reading I've done on my own. Once again, we are human, and love to boil everything down to simple, easily digested facts that usually wind up as tomorrow's new fad diet. The truth is more complicated,…