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In short, it is just a subjective thing. We can add exercise to that. Some people become ravenously hungry with exercise, prompting them to overeat, some people feel their hunger goes away on exercise, prompting to them to undereat. In the end, being overweight/obese is a risk factor. Some people seem to do fine despite…
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The word sugar addiction is, in my view, just a word used to talk about the unwillingness not to use it. Blaming processed food and the food industry is blaming commerce for selling what the public wants. When has commerce ever insisted on selling products that the public does not want to buy? The only people who are to…
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I forgot to add my calories as per your question: it is an average of a little under 1050 kcal.
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Thank you. What I do, is very simple: every meal consists of 250 g vegetables and a can of sardines (1st meal) or 50 g boiled soybeans (3rd and 5th meal) or 33 g of lupini flakes (2nd, 4th and 6th meal). The vegetables are onions, green beans, broccoli, green/red peppers, mushrooms (not officially a vegetable), spinach,…
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Indeed. It should also be added that the islanders have a reputation of being able to be fatter than most before their risk for metabolic diseases increases. There is a hypothesis that this has to do with the fact that they had to be able to survive long trips over sea to reach the islands and that this "talent for…
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Congratulations. All you have to do now, is keep it off. That may take some trial and error, but it should not be particularly difficult to figure out.
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We should always be suspicious of articles, even more so of articles that seem to confirm what we think. This one is no exception: The claim may be true for some countries, but it isn't true for others, such as the US and most industrialised countries. Googling will will reveal any number of articles confirming this, and…
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No one claims there is no science. However, that science confirms exactly what medicine claims: that exercise is next to useless for weight loss, and that goes against what exercise proponents like to claim. This is the only "positive" one of the three. It is an abstract. Abstracts are notoriously unreliable and no ethical…
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Same for this one: I can not repeat it enough: no one is rubbishing exercise for health, but as an intervention for weight loss it is useless, unless you take it to extremes most people will never be able to reach. Exceptions exist, the Biggest Loser is a prime example of that, but even they used a calorie-restricted diet…
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Impressive dfferences made by exercise: An increase of a whopping 300 g attributable to exercise on a diet total of 10.7 kg or a difference of 2.8%. If that doesn't show that exercise is useless for weight loss, I don't know what is. The difference is so tiny that it doesn't even make plausible sense. Any statistician will…
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I do not soak beans, but I cook them at a 45 min setting. One of the advantages of the Instant Pot (mine, anyway) is that it remembers the 45 min setting, so I never even think about it anymore. That made me a big fan of the Instant Pot.
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Indeed. The number one reason that evidence-based guidelines don't have the hoped-for results is that people do not follow them.
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I have fought the Instant Pot for a long time, mainly because I live alone and no one seems to sell small electric pressure cookers in Toronto. However, I finally gave in for one single reason: soybeans. I do not soak them. I merely put them in the pot, add water, press the button and open the pot when everything has…
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What these people claim in videos is to be seen as the entertainment it is. If they have studies that back up their claims they should produce them. I am unaware of any such studies. That does not mean they do not exist. I may very well be uninformed. Nevertheless, before a patient risks her/his life on such an endeavour,…
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Your best best is to talk to a doctor MD. More generally speaking, starvation mode is largely a myth. It is true that losing weight will automatically lead to lower energy needs, because fat does use energy and losing fat leads to lower energy needs (a.k.a. the easiest way to lose weight quickly is to be very fat). It is…
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Exactly the same problem. Charlatans will exploit any and all human weaknesses.
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We seem to be of one mind on this. I can imagine that some people feel "full and satisfied" at the very instant they have "eaten just enough", but given how biology works, that would seem like an eating disorder they are lucky enough to have rather than a standard feature of the human condition. Biology should always make…
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This would put you in a range that is statistically the best range to be in, almost precisely the ideal weight often used in Germany. If I were you, I would not try to lose any more weight before I had a good conversation with my doctor MD. It may well be better for you to lose more weight (or not), but as a lay person,…
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That is a typical lay person's understanding of "it's all in your head". "It's all in your head" does not mean that the symptoms/effects a person is experiencing are not real. They mean that the symptoms are subjective and possibly "non-specific". They are one of the hardest problems medicine has to deal with. It is…
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Right you are. We have a few here at our local Loblaws that are 95 g (including Colombia) instead of 100 g. There is also Gold Espresso in jars of 200 g, but that is obviously a very special product indeed with completely different ingredients, as you can see in the spoiler: A nice reminder that even multinationals pay…
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I asked Nescafé about the energy content of Nescafé Gold Medium Roast, but they did not reply. That is disappointing because they don't have precise numbers on their Canadian website. However, they did give me a maximum caffeine content of 1600 mg for a 100 g jar. Since I use, on average, 1 jar a week, that means 230 mg a…
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Depending on how they measure it: 1. weigh the clothes you will be wearing when going there. 2. dress the way they will weigh you over there and weigh yourself just before going there. Then, see how much you weigh over there, subtract the two numbers and you will now know the (hopefully) standard difference between the two…
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Too bad, you have/had to experience this, but it is a nice illustration of my position that food does not have to taste good, it should just not taste bad.
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Quite possibly nothing at all. Weight fluctuates. It is normal, it is natural, it is unpredictable. Have a look at this: This is not a weight loss curve. It shows the difference between my highest weight and my lowest weight on the same day. This difference has varied between 0 kg and 3.5 kg. What this shows is that a…
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Great. Keep doing it. Losing weight can be –and is– hard at times, but this isn't rocket science. Keep up the good work.
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Congratulations. Keep up the good work. You *can* do it.
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That makes two of us. I think frozen vegetables trump sliced bread. They are, by far, the best thing that ever happened to me. I concur. We might well wish that CICO was wrong, but it isn't and it couldn't possibly be.
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Spectacular change. Congratulations. You obviously know what works for you. Continue the good work.