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Diet composition does not have any direct impact on body weight. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/55/2/350.full.pdf Eating a low-carb diet may help you stick to a diet by eliminating sources of highly palatable, calorie-dense foods. But there is nothing about the chemical nature of the food that is affecting body weight.

This is why low-carb diets work. Going to a low-carb diet does nothing metabolically to your body to make your lose weight. However, it does tend to remove highly palatable, calorie-dense foods from one's diet, which can make weight loss easier. Here is the weight of a patient fed a controlled diet on 10% fat vs. 70% fat.…

Binge eating really has nothing to do with calories. It's not about "I ate X calories so it was a binge". Binge eating is simply eating without the ability to control the amount eaten. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binge_eating_disorder All of the following are DSM-IV criteria that must be present to classify a person's…

Nuts in general are quite healthy and nutritious. My main problem with nuts is they are also in general very calorie dense. One small package of nuts from the vending machine is like 250 calories. This is the equivalent of like 5 slices of Sunbeam white bread. So I don't find them very satisfying for the amount of calories…

There is nothing "wrong" with sushi, it's just highly palatable, calorie dense and so hard to eat on a diet. When I used to go eat sushi, I'd eat 4 rolls. I'm not talking about those huge log things, whatever you call those, these are the little guys that are about 1.5 inches in diameter and about 6" long. I'd eat 4 of…

Deposition of body fat is genetically controlled. You cannot spot reduce body fat.

Of course it does. That's why I specifically said: But in terms of calories in, it makes no difference to your body or what it does with your fat mass. What it does to you behaviorally is an entirely different issue.

Diet composition has no bearing on body weight. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/55/2/350.full.pdf The only affect diet composition has on your diet is to help or hinder adherence. In other words, you may be able to adhere to a diet longer by sticking to less palatable or less calorie-dense foods.

Yup, what Sara said. If you have just arbitrarily arrived at 1200 calories you may be eating too much of a deficit. 2 pounds a week is about the most you can do in a healthy manner and that is 1000 calories a day deficit. As Sara noted half that - 500 calories a day deficit - get you to 1 pound a week. But the key is to…

My parents were the same way and though I vowed I would not do it I am doing it to my own kids. The fact is, they just plain waste food. I don't want to encourage eating when you are not full but it annoys me when they ask for, say, another cup of milk and then they take a sip and say, "I'm done". So I've started saying,…

Plateaus are normal. When I start a diet, I lose about 10 pounds in 2-3 weeks, and then nothing happens for 3-4 weeks. This is because for some people when you start to lose body fat your metabolism slows down to fight the weight loss. It is your body's defense mechanism to save fat. You may feel cold and hungry. Eating…

Bad news for ya, bro - for some of us, if you are losing weight you are going to be hungry. Some people can mitigate this by upping protein intake in the diet but for many people when your body fat falls your leptin levels fall and your metabolism will fall. For those this happens to this will happen no matter how many…

How do you guys keep track of all the different dietary parameters? I find it hard enough to pick foods just watching caloric intake. I can't imagine trying to figure out different foods to hit all the other parameters, too. I don't even know how I would go about choosing foods to hit macros. It sounds like playing food…

Diet composition does not affect body weight. A calorie is a calorie. http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/55/2/350.full.pdf Over 13 weeks, fed a controlled diet of 7322 kJ daily, virtually no weight variation despite changing the caloric intake from 10% fat to 70% fat. You do not need to eat "clean" to lose weight. And in…

Yup, that is the same study he is talking about in part of the lecture. Of course the lecture covers much more than dietary composition. The main thrust of the lecture is about the genetic and hormonal nature of body fat storage.

Did you just ignore the part of the lecture I paraphrased for you that said that diet composition doesn't matter in terms of body fat mass? Watch the lecture.

Interesting article on the T2 diabetics. However, only 5 of the 16 patients had stable weight maintenance at the end of 44 months. Most of the patients were on a steady up-trend, just like Dr. Leibel showed in his lecture slides. I also found this interesting: What this means is that once you start a low-carb diet, you…

No, that is not what Dr. Leibel is talking about in the segment of the video I cited. He did a controlled study, 24-hour supervision, liquid diet, over some period of time, with about 30 patients, and varied their intake with the same calories but for part of the time having 10% fat content while other times 70% fat…

Dr. Leibel is very well published so you may indeed be able to find his work in printed format. I'd recommend you try a different browser or something to watch the video though.

In terms of weight loss, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. It has been shown in controlled studies that weight will be unchanged on the same calories regardless if those calories come from 10% fat or 70% fat. See two minutes (49:40 to 51:49) of this video from Dr. Leibel at one the Grand Rounds lectures from the…

I work and my wife stays at home. We have an 8-year old daughter and a 5-year-old son. There are really some basic things here that are not being mentioned. If you want to have children, someone has to raise them. Unless you are independently wealthy, at least one of parents has to work to support the family. If the other…

In terms of body fat, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. You will lose the same amount of weight eating 10% fat as 70% fat. Obviously you need to eat a nutritious diet to stay healthy, however. You may find that eating a low-carb diet helps with hunger. Also eating less calorie-dense foods or less palatable foods may…

The only effects I feel of not dieting is a sense of a return to feeling good, as opposed to the suffering I feel when dieting. So yes, in that sense, I can "feel" the effects of not dieting. Of course I also see the effects on the scale and my clothes not fitting. Yes, obviously this is when I need to take action but it…

I know I'm not, from a lifetime of trying many times. For my latest attempt, see: http://i.imgur.com/ijSkLog.jpg After 30 weeks of sustained weight loss of 30 pounds I gained back 21 pounds over the course of 3 months. Because that's what the data shows, my friend. Depending on which study you look at, between 80% and 95%…

But again, you can't use the subset of people using this site to prove anything. Even if people using this site had higher rates of success (which would need evidence to support), the fact is that among all people who attempt behavioral modification to lose weight between 80% and 95% of those people fail. As the doctor…

I think it is mostly discipline, as it takes discipline to do those things. 5 minutes in the car fixes that. I've done it many times. It takes discipline to not do that. Most people can sustain that discipline for a while, but not long-term. But I keep trying.

Low carb diets work simply because it is harder (though absolutely not impossible) to eat a calorie surplus on one plus the high protein and fat helps with satiety which helps stick with the diet. This is a prime example of why low-carb diets tend to not be sustainable. Either people give in and go back to the foods they…

That is a different subject though. You are now talking about all overweight people, when I am talking about people who are overweight who have or are trying to lose weight. Most people who try to lose weight, between 80% and 95%, depending on study, fail to sustain it long term. This is an entirely different discussion…

It's also that somewhere between 80% and 95% of people who try to lose weight fail. Also there are a lot of people on MFP who have never been obese, which is evidently a big part of the problem. It may well be that becoming obese causes irreversible consequences regarding leptin. This video gives a great insight as to why…

According to the doctor, it may not ever. They saw this effect in people who had kept weight off for 3-4 years. You end up with reduced leptin levels and reduced metabolism. I highly recommend you watch the entire video if you have an hour. It is very enlightening. It's also very depressing, as it basically says that most…