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  • Re: Can it be that simple?

    Seconding this point. The fact that the basic principles are simple doesn't mean that it's easy. For the first few weeks of a serious calorie deficit, your body is going to respond by making you hung…
  • Re: The Weight Loss Translator

    Sometimes that should be translated: "Because your BMI is over an arbitrary limit, your insurance company won't reimburse me for seeing you unless I suggest that you should lose weight and then …
  • Re: vanity sizing

    Vanity sizing has even hit men's clothing, as this article in Esquire explained nearly a decade ago: https://www.esquire.com/style/mens-fashion/a8386/pants-size-chart-090710/
  • Re: 3500 calories to gain 1 pound

    Over the course of a year, the typical adult eats between 700,000 and one million calories, and yet the homeostatic feedback system of hunger and satiety is so finely tuned that many of them maintain…
  • Re: Unexpected weight gain?

    If you're eating in a significant deficit, then there's no way you could have gained 3 pounds of fat in a week. It's water weight. Depending on what I eat and how much I exercise, I've sometimes fluc…
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