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[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

The main reasons why calorie deficits don't work(if they dont work) is because your body adapts to the deficit and your metabolism changes. If your body is getting less energy(calories) it's going to conserve whatever it has.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

Thought to lose weight you simply eat less calories than your body burns in a day.. and instead your body burns the fat already stored in your body to compensate.

A good diet is eating around 1200 to 1500 calories a day.

1- 3,500 calories = 1 pound of body fat. MYTH. While it is true that burning a pound of body fat will yield 3,500 calories over a laboratory bunsen burner, the body simply does not work that way. If it did, you would lose a pound every two days if you starved yourself. But nearly everyone has gained two or three pounds in a single day without eating 10,000 calories. And folks on VLC diets routinely lose two pounds a day without using 7,000 calories or starving themselves. How? The body is not a bunsen burner. It does not "burn" calories. It utilizes them, and can be persuaded to utilize them either very efficiently (bad for weight loss) or wastefully (ideal for weight loss)

2- Weight loss is accomplished by eating less and exercising. MYTH. A 13 year study has definitively killed this theory, which never made sense anyway. Sure the "math" seems to make sense, but totally disregards the primary job of your metabolism: keeping you alive. If you both eat less and exercise more, your body will read your situation as a crisis. What would you do if you were a submarine captain and your boat sunk? More would be demanded of you while at the same time your resources just became a limited commodity. You would conserve in every way you could, right? Your body does the same thing. Demand more energy output while providing less energy input, your metabolism will conserve everything it can. Extreme examples of this are known as "starvation mode", wherein the body can actually gain weight while eating less than a quarter of it's normal caloric requirement. The body does this by reducing the demands of the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which is another discussion for a different day.

https://www.quora.com/Why-am-I-not-...ccurately-calculated-500-calorie-deficit-diet

 

[Toro]

What did you get?

Well I wanted to keep my s5 longer.... I HATE new phones, with their built in batteries and overpriced whatchamadoodads.....

but since my S5 was refusing to charge, wouldn't get on the net anymore.... etc........ the s9+

 

[MehGuy]

1- 3,500 calories = 1 pound of body fat. MYTH. While it is true that burning a pound of body fat will yield 3,500 calories over a laboratory bunsen burner, the body simply does not work that way. If it did, you would lose a pound every two days if you starved yourself. But nearly everyone has gained two or three pounds in a single day without eating 10,000 calories. And folks on VLC diets routinely lose two pounds a day without using 7,000 calories or starving themselves. How? The body is not a bunsen burner. It does not "burn" calories. It utilizes them, and can be persuaded to utilize them either very efficiently (bad for weight loss) or wastefully (ideal for weight loss)

2- Weight loss is accomplished by eating less and exercising. MYTH. A 13 year study has definitively killed this theory, which never made sense anyway. Sure the "math" seems to make sense, but totally disregards the primary job of your metabolism: keeping you alive. If you both eat less and exercise more, your body will read your situation as a crisis. What would you do if you were a submarine captain and your boat sunk? More would be demanded of you while at the same time your resources just became a limited commodity. You would conserve in every way you could, right? Your body does the same thing. Demand more energy output while providing less energy input, your metabolism will conserve everything it can. Extreme examples of this are known as "starvation mode", wherein the body can actually gain weight while eating less than a quarter of it's normal caloric requirement. The body does this by reducing the demands of the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which is another discussion for a different day.

https://www.quora.com/Why-am-I-not-...ccurately-calculated-500-calorie-deficit-diet

I don't see how else your body won't go into the fat reserves if you don't eat enough calories a day. As far as people gaining and losing weight quickly that's probably due to water weight.

I have read that it's best not to cut your calories too quickly because the body will believe it's starving and will therefore be more apt to store fat. Gradually eating less is key.

If you're regularly eating 2500 calories a day it's best to start with a 2k calorie diet at first.

 

[MehGuy]

Well I wanted to keep my s5 longer.... I HATE new phones, with their built in batteries and overpriced whatchamadoodads.....

but since my S5 was refusing to charge, wouldn't get on the net anymore.... etc........ the s9+

Wow.. still on my S6.. tempted to get the S9 but might wait until the S10.

Can't remember exactly but I think starting with the S6 the screen resolution jumped to 2k and hasn't changed much sense.

 

[Toro]

Wow.. still on my S6.. tempted to get the S9 but might wait until the S10.

Can't remember exactly but I think starting with the S6 the screen resolution jumped to 2k and hasn't changed much sense.

Well, the S5 also had the microSD so it would read the sd the same as internal space so you could run apps off the sd.......

I loved my S5 (aside from its age and the phone companies bogging it down making me say I hate it) I would have been happy to keep the S5, but inevitably caught up to it

 

[MehGuy]

Well, the S5 also had the microSD so it would read the sd the same as internal space so you could run apps off the sd.......

I loved my S5 (aside from its age and the phone companies bogging it down making me say I hate it) I would have been happy to keep the S5, but inevitably caught up to it

Yeah the S6 has no SD slot. Which highly annoys me. I ran out of space pretty quickly... the S9 is the same way?

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

Yeah the S6 has no SD slot. Which highly annoys me. I ran out of space pretty quickly... the S9 is the same way?

Have you considered the note? I'll be getting the newest one the next time i get a phone.

 

[MehGuy]

Have you considered the note? I'll be getting the newest one the next time i get a phone.

A little too afraid it will be too big for he pocket.

 

[Toro]

Yeah the S6 has no SD slot. Which highly annoys me. I ran out of space pretty quickly... the S9 is the same way?

No, S9 has an SD slot that can hold a 400gb card and 64gb internal

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

A little too afraid it will be too big for he pocket.

Just do like me and walk around all day with your hand on your pocket lol

 

[Saucy]

Yes, I'm confused about how the body thing works too. Sometimes I question I'm even losing weight, but everyone around me is making comments and I'm getting a lot stronger. Mentally it's hard to get over, despite seeing changes within myself. It feels weird being able to eat what I do, and still lose weight. Bacon, eggs, and steak? Mushrooms stuffed with crab meat? Like hecks ya! But mentally, it's hard to 'get it' and see yourself as becoming someone new.

 

[MehGuy]

I don't know.. I was pretty good at losing weight doing the old fashioned calorie count.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

To me its a situation where the results speak for themselves. Can't argue with results.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

I don't know.. I was pretty good at losing weight doing the old fashioned calorie count.

The problem with it is it leads to yoyo dieting. You cut calories for a while, lose weight, then gain it all back. Rinse and repeat.

 

[MehGuy]

The problem with it is it leads to yoyo dieting. You cut calories for a while, lose weight, then gain it all back. Rinse and repeat.

Not if you don't continue a healthy diet.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

Not if you don't continue a healthy diet.

Whats healthy for you may not be healthy for me.

 

[MehGuy]

Whats healthy for you may not be healthy for me.

Guess I don't understand why so many people were thinner during less calorie sufficient times.

 

[Saucy]

Your body doesn't need to use as much energy the smaller you get, so the people who choose a diet that makes them starve themselves, they will have moderate success. The moment they lose a lot of weight up front, their metabolism will catch up and they will stop losing and even gain as the body goes into crisis mode. Very low calorie diet is so unsustainable that most people don't last too long on it, so as they lowered their metabolism, they gave up and went back to eating as they did before. This is how a lot of people gain weight faster after failing a diet.

I suggest keto, of course, but you don't have to do keto OR starve yourself to lose weight. Most people can lose weight doing intermittent fasting and still eating a decent amount because you don't spike your insulin as much.

 

[MehGuy]

Also with working out and gaining muscle.. the more muscle you gain the more calories are sent to sustain them.