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This is literally the most ignorant and offensive thing I have read in awhile. Starving children in poor countries aren't fat and their body doesn't hold on to fat. Their bellies are swollen and their organs are spilling forward because their bodies have cannibalized the muscle that normally holds the organs in place. To…
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Who knows? Hopefully. All we can do is try. I've never regained weight that I've lost but that could change at any time.
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I work out twice... a week. My workouts are very rigorous and my body needs the time to properly heal and recover. Occasionally I increase to three times a week just before I'm about to jump up to significantly heavier weights. Can't imagine doing any sort of serious workout twice a day, but it all depends on your workout…
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I don't have data to back up my claims, but my suspicion is that lifestyle changes will be marginally more effective than crash diets but that no method reliably loses weight and keeps it off permanently. It takes a herculean commitment for the rest of your life to keep weight off and even though everyone thinks they will…
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"You're not eating enough" has a few possible explanations: 1) They're genuinely concerned that the person isn't getting enough micronutrients at their current caloric intake and needs to increase it. That's one valid reason to increase your intake. 2) They're worried that the person is eating so little they're going to…
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A few major issues with their study: 1) They are looking at a genetic duplication that effects 0.05% of people and using a sample size of just under 100,000 people which means the group they're looking at is under 50 people. Given the ridiculously small sample size this gives us, they would need to be extremely careful…
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Instead of linking comedy videos to try to win an argument in which you're professing a need for science, why don't you link that study you made multiple references to? I tried searching for it and couldn't find any study published by the University of Lausanne which made the claims you're making. Would love to read…
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Are you drinking other fluids throughout the day (coffee, tea, pop, milk, juice, etc.)? You don't need water in particular, but it's healthy to stay hydrated and you can do that with any drinkable liquid that's not poison.
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My first comment was a tongue-in-cheek joke about how almost everyone thinks they're special and was not meant as a statement of literal truth. Would it have helped if I added [/joke] tags?
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It's really amazing how 100% of the people in this thread are the 5%. Also fun to note, the 5% count someone who has lost 5% of their weight permanently as a success. So if you're 300lbs and go to 285lbs you're part of the very rare 5%. People going from 300lbs to 180lbs are a tiny subgroup of the 5%. But feel free to say…
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Just to add some context to your linked study - when they say that they administered "abuse dosages" as high as 200 mg/kg body weight, this would be like a 175 lb person drinking just slightly over 88 cans of diet coke. That's 31L of fluid. If you can drink that in a day, I am highly impressed with your determination (but…
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Why are people so mean all the time? This person just wants to ingest a random substance for no real reason - that's *always* a great plan! I had a friend tell me bleach curse hangovers, I'm going to go drink some! And don't bother telling me not to, you big jerks!
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It's not a matter of being scared, it's a matter of it not being necessary for everyone. I lost 95 lbs without weighing a single thing or logging anything outside of a mental calorie count I'd do in my head. Most people don't have that kind of success but it's certainly not impossible. That said, I am now weighing and…
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It's simple - there's a practical limit on how big a calorie deficit you can make per day. Even if you ate nothing and worked out the max I could see would be about a 3000 calorie deficit and at that rate you'd make it maybe a few days before collapsing. Even for dedicated dieters, the max sustainable deficit is usually…
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Everything converts to fat if you eat too much of it. Fat is just the natural way your body stores surplus energy so it can use it later when it needs it. Don't eat surplus calories and you don't need to worry about anything getting turned into fat. It honestly seems like some people refuse to believe in very simple…
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Whaaaaaaat? We must be living in alternate universes, women can get away with murder and have it count as business casual in every company I've ever worked for. Pretty much anything that's not jeans or yoga pants or a tank top are good to go for women where as men are required to wear dress pants or khakis with a dress…
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Thermal accelerator cream? :laugh:
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Eating too few calories can definitely cause some permanent damage to your body, but it can NEVER stop you from losing weight. Ever. You'll lose weight unhealthily fast, your body will start cannibalizing its own muscle tissue, you will feel lethargic and have no energy and a plethora of other nasty side effects. If you're…
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Fact is fact. A deficit is literally defined as less calories consumed than burned which literally must mean you're using energy from your body to make up the difference which means you're losing weight. If you aren't losing weight you are not, by definition, in a deficit. That doesn't mean you're a liar. Maybe it's water…
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It depends entirely on the level of deficit you're running. Some people have a lot to lose and can healthily run deficits of ~1000 calories per day, allowing them to drop 8-10 pounds a month. Some people don't have a lot to lose and can only run deficits of 250 calories per day, allowing them to drop 2-2.5 pounds a month.…
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Peanut butter sounds like your ideal solution. It's mostly fat and protein with a little bit of carbs and is incredibly calorie dense in general, meaning it should be easy to fit it in. Alternatively, snacking on some nuts throughout the day would be an easy way to increase proteins and fats. Cooking with butter/full fat…
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If any doctor seriously tells you that you can eat at a calorie deficit and gain weight (aside from short term water weight), he should immediately lose his medical doctorate as he does not grasp basic scientific principles and is unfit to continue practicing. Calories are not a magical creature that behaves differently…
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I guess foe most days as i eat out 5 days a week, but I have been in maitenance for over a year and have actually lost a few more pounds in that time. I still count calories in my head but I only log every once in awhile to double check my micro/macro breakdowns. If you can do it with estimating, go for if. If you start…
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That's nearly a pound of meat... that's quite a large serving. I usually have 8oz of chicken breast in a sitting which is around 250 cals.
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Is it a binge? Yes. Is that *necessarily* a bad thing? No. Binge eating disorder is usually defined as uncontrollable, frequent binges where you try to hide it from others, can't stop yourself from eating pretty much everything in sight and feel awful during and/or after. Simply choosing to have a larger (but still…
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A few thoughts: 1) Do you have any medical conditions that would be affecting your RMR? Anything like hypothyroidism? That may be a contributing factor for why your RMR is low. 2) Even with a thyroid condition, 646 seems like an impossibly low number to me. I would say it's more likely to be user error (i.e. the test was…
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The alcohol is acting as a diuretic to dehydrate you, you're just losing and gaining back water weight. If you're not losing weight, you're not at a deficit.
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Being in too high a caloric deficit will not stop you from losing weight, it will do the opposite and make you lose weight faster. However, the reason we don't use high caloric deficits is because they're not healthy (generally speaking). You will feel exhausted all the time, mentally run-down, your body will start…
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When you get down to it, you're going to have to make a choice for yourself. Do you want to lose weight, or do you want to eat whatever you want and however much you want of it? March 23rd is the perfect example. I accept that some days you will be going to McDonalds for lunch and going to Pizza Hut for dinner - I'm…
