Gianfranco_R Member

I hadn't done this exercise in the last 35 years, but yes I can :smiley: Anyway, fitness is a spectrum, if you want to pick an objective test, I would look at this http://www.military.com/military-fitness/marine-corps-fitness-requirements/usmc-physical-fitness-test

Apart from what bones and teeth tell us, we have studies on contemporary hunter gatherer populations. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8450295

Well, do you accept animal studies? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2228403

Things seem not to be how you picture them https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661478/

Of course there are, not even necessary a so low temperature https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3726164/

Interesting, may I ask whether you have intentionally reduced your deficit since June?

Probably, people who don't believe in the concept, simply haven't experienced it. And guess what, high weight variability predicts weight gain: http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/5/995.long?view=long&pmid=26354535

You are welcome, I think it may be especially good to know for those who use the metric system :smile: Also, the .63 conversion factor may induce someone to think it is an exact formula, while it is not meant to be (it can be 10/15% off).

The clever person was an Italian scientist, Margaria, who published a paper in 1938. The original (approximated) formula is in metric, and much simpler: kcal= weight in kg x kilometers

Yeah, probably the settling model is more in line with the cico reductionism that we can observe here. But, frankly, their opinion is irrelevant.

A good paper that examines also alternative and more recent theories: http://dmm.biologists.org/content/4/6/733

It seems not published. Yet someone in another thread has already stated that the (unpublished) study is "poorly written"...

oh, well, perhaps, but usually there are reasons behind phenomena

So, was your new nutritionist to prescribe a 500 calories diet (usually in the form of a sandwich)?

A quick Google search gave me this: https://authoritynutrition.com/low-carb-and-womens-hormones/ (Surely AU is not an anti low carb site)

I'm not sure if we can really generalize, but I also noticed that people who experience problems on low carb seem to be mostly women. I guess they are more sensitive to hormones' changes.

It's unlikely indeed. they write "We do not yet know whether the simple proportional controller represented by Equation (4) is valid for a range of weight losses. For example, it may be possible that small weight changes are uncompensated by changes in energy intake such that the control system engages only after…

Btw, it is also an interesting read the guest post she recently wrote for authority nutrition https://authoritynutrition.com/4-reasons-some-do-well-as-vegans/ That explains also why some people do better on HCLF

speaker or not, to call the doctor is sound advice, but instead of a "more scientific" explanation, if it is not clear, I would simply ask "is there anything wrong with my mother? has she got IR/prediabetes?"

I see. I am not sure, but it sounds more as an excuse not to stop smoking. Anyway, I couldn't resist, and I looked for statistics :smile: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/23/tobacco-industry-atlas-smoking Lots of female smokers in Austria and Greece, while most of the European countries are pretty close…

I live in two European countries, and I've never heard about this "method" (Europe is culturally not that homogeneous, tough)

To me, those who show such attitude seem more oriented on misinforming the masses.

I can't take you seriously, sorry.

I see, nothing new then. Ancient latins called it "levitas animi" and it was the reason why women were considered incompetent...Oh wait :smile:

And I had no idea that recomp is a fad. You never cease to learn on these boards.

Funnily enough, in Italian popular culture, "Cico" is a comic character, definitely fat :smile:

Yep, here is his take on cico: https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/first-law-thermodynamics-irrelevant/

Perhaps "inneffectual" education? :smile:

Well, that happens because when we resume training after a stop, we want to be back to our previous fitness level too fast. It's avoidable.

At our age, we should simply avoid to train through pain (not yet resolved shoulder injury speaking here).