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I think honestly most people that think fixing digestion will cause weight loss don't have a very deep or structured model in their mind for how it will work. I think instead most people espousing it thing something like, obesity / overweight is bad / a disease, the digestive system is involved in the problem, fix…

Cortisol: Cortisol is a hormone used to mobile glucose for high energy activity. The point is to turn up and down various metabolic pathways based on their relevance to success in the big 4 Fs of nature: flight, fight, feed, and mate. It can't change the ability to store or withdrawn energy beyond the limits of what a…

First, I made a point. I'll state it directly. Your reasoning and support are bad. If you're entitled to your opinion, am I not entitled to mine? I am? Okay, so mine is expressing why someone should not listen to yours. Why even you should not listen to your own reasoning, and reconsider it. Two, not just to me, they're…

All of his dead relatives would come back from the grave to full life and health and congratulate him on the weight loss. I mean if we're making up scenarios that aren't going to happen, let's give them a made up happy ending too. Generally the only people generating a 3,000 calorie deficit a day for 60 days are super…

Get checked out for the fuzzy head by a medical professional. I would not take the anti-inflammatories like fish oil or turmeric immediately post workout. Blunting the inflammatory process post workout might blunt the hypertrophy adaptions. Several studies show that happens when using ice baths post workout.

I'm sorry again, but how do agendas cause fat to magically disappear? Not to mention, it doesn't matter what's more valid to you. You're trying to convince someone else. Even if they accept your form of reasoning, your experience belonging to you makes it just as valid as a professor on a twinkie diet, a body builder…

I'm sorry to say you have kidneys for a reason. Water retention happens in relation to changes in salt and water intake, not in relation to absolute salt intake at a steady state. I doubt someone's been ramping up their salt intake constantly since November, and generally to get that kind of salt intake increase without…

I'm not sure what a convoluted rationale is, but saying a site is wrong merely because they accept ads would be fallacious - an ad hominem, and for once a proper example of the fallacy instead of just using it about name calling. Funding, particularly in undisclosed relations, is a reason to be skeptical of a claim, but it…

What? Clearly all of your body's vital functions stop when you sleep and you are temporarily dead. Next you'll say your heartbeat continues. Or you'll say off the wall things like the majority of your calories are burned during sleep. Or that things like lack of stuff to digest actually causes issues with staying asleep…

The idea of kidney problems from high protein come from people with existing kidney damage having issues. So far there has never been a study showing kidney issues in someone with normal kidney function going on a high protein diet. Jose Antonio even did a study with ~4.4g protein / kg bodyweight in advanced lifters and…

This is a common misconception of dopamine. Serotonin is more the neurotransmitter of happiness, if we want to be that reductionist. Dopamine does a lot of things depending on where it is being transmitted, but in terms of emotions, it is probably best considered anticipation. Just as an example, dopamine not only…

There are two reasons that make the upping the calories seem to work. One is when doing an actual diet break. Sometimes a week or two can actually reset metabolic adaptations, and pump NEAT back up a bit. This usually has the person's weight stay near constant, followed by weight loss works again in the weeks after. Two is…

Well I didn't say you made the comparison. I said keto people do. Seems calling projecting is just an endless back and forth. I actually pointed out what he said, and what you said. Your comment just comes off as an unevidenced assertion. That, if anything, comes off as projecting. You literally did ask a question about a…

Is knee pain the major reason you're opposed to resistance training? It is fine if you just don't like resistance training. It won't change how effective or necessary it might be towards your goals, but if you don't like it, you'll just have to consider what is worth what you're trying to achieve. If it really is knee pain…

His wording was "you miss out on a lot of highly nutritious foods eating that low of carbohydrates", so your question of "nutrients do you miss out on" is a bit of a misrepresentation. He didn't claim you can't get the nutrients, but the implication is it will require a more managed approach as foods that make it easier to…

You look lean already. If the problem is more in the face, is there any possibility you have some kind of puffiness or bloating? Seems a bit off chance, but chasing after 15% as a woman is probably going to be miserable to unhealthy to try to reach, let alone maintain. 15% would tend to represent a visible or near visible…

I don't even like peanut butter combined with chocolate and I still feel betrayed by this post.

Good news, we think we know now how the Blue Zone people have so many people that live past 100. The answer is to drink, smoke, be poor, on pension, oh and lie about your age on census forms when you live in an area with poor record keeping: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v :D

I mean the NWCR data empirically disagrees with you, so maybe this isn't the best advice. I just think doing what people who have succeeded do will tend to help, but you might disagree. Also, I have to ask, how few bites do you get to by intermittent fasting? I'm just thinking getting on the scale once a day is a lot less…

There's a misnomer I don't like there. A lot of people tend to use CICO and calorie counting interchangeably, which makes understanding where they are wrong is at. CICO is how all weight loss happens - arguably not in the case of water or limbs lost, but if someone wants to raise that kind of pedantry, I'll double down on…

I'm thinking the fluxation is more a symptom of many possible things than a cause. Leaving it at falling off the wagon still feels proximal; it feels like it leaves it at willpower. I think the hypothesis Menno would push is the fall offs represents not a lack of will, but setting up changes that use up too much willpower…

"Losing weight is hard. Being overweight is hard. Choose your hard." - James Hill of the NWCR

I think what is interesting is that the more of things done right, the more things that seem to be optimal (objectively the very best). Several people who are at a good body composition, eating around maintenance, and doing both some resistance and aerobic activities could both report different recommendations for the best…

Had the same thought. Sure, running isn't anything like an optimal or even good hypertrophy program, but it does require putting on some muscle more than a sedentary person. I think at least part of skinny-fat will be the kind of insulin resistance lack of physical activity causes. A runner is also pretty likely to be…

Thanks, I had not thought of that part when conveying my experience. My body was already conditioned for a lot of the max forces in those things, even if not as much for the repetitive things. Detox - I think everyone in this thread has gone into more detail than you. You've not stated much of what just started means for…

For arguendo, let's just assume we can help and improve our organs - again, just for arguendo. If I told you I tuned up my car - as analogy - do you think my car would be more efficient and use less fuel when tuned up (improve), or more fuel, be less efficient? Now, to make the analogy explicit, human fuel is called food.…

It looks like there are limits to how much appetite will rise in relation to increased energy expenditure. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29897822?fbclid=IwAR2sHS301q7igWvdVR64QwUD6-N58rGBbr1TYPgO6IXdQDVwmkpxMXlYrYc ^Flock found that putting a group on 1500 calories of exercise created a 500 calorie deficit, but at…

It will vary by person. Not just how well you eyeball, but how much you're willing to accept fluxuations and how much you're willing to consider maintenance a process of getting a little over and reeling it back in, or if you want it to be very steady state. Having regular physical activity will also make a difference.…

Just started can be a lot of things. For an obese individual jogging a mile might be impossible to start, but for someone else, starting might mean they can a 5k around a 30-something minutes pace already. There's also individual response and individual expectations. Finishing a marathon is a lot easier if 10 hours is an…

So bulking isn't gaining strength, but bulking is? A small surplus is still a bulk. It is correct though, that a large surplus bulk is not beneficial. A calorie surplus is facilitative, not causative of hypertrophy. OP, no, weight gain does not have a direct correlation with strength. In trained lifters, increases in…