Author Topic: Best way to lose weight (Read 9223 times)

The Mrs · « **Reply #60 on:** August 20, 2020, 03:57:17 PM »

Quote from: maccabeansoft on June 04, 2020, 11:59:57 AM

Does anyone have any tips for me to lose 90 pounds? I am not obese. But, I am very overweight. I am 5"11 250 pounds. Does anyone on here have any advice on losing weight? I also have Plaque Psoriasis and it messes up my insulin. I don't have diabetes. But, I am at risk for that later in life including Arthritis. What should I do? God bless.

I suggest watching this guy. He has had major success in losing weight in a sustainable way. He is also young, like you. He has very good advice.

forlorn · « **Reply #61 on:** August 20, 2020, 06:55:12 PM »

Cut out fast food, sweets, etc. and pick up running and you're pretty much guaranteed to lose weight, no further thinking required.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #62 on:** August 20, 2020, 07:19:41 PM »

Quote from: forlorn on August 20, 2020, 06:55:12 PM

Cut out fast food, sweets, etc. and pick up running and you're pretty much guaranteed to lose weight, no further thinking required.

I disagree somewhat. There was a scientist who ate nothing but Twinkies (and took vitamins not to ruin his health) and he lost weight. At the end of the day, weight loss is in fact using more calories than one consumes. NOW, when you reduce your calories, you do want to eat good food to maintain your health, and you want to take in good amounts of protein and fat so as not to lose muscle mass ... so I don't recommend the Twinkie diet. When I cut my calories some time ago, I always avoided WASTING calories on something useless like pop or a candy bar. For what this pop has in it, I could eat a small hamburger, I thought. But you could cut out sweets and fast food and still consume more calories than you use and GAIN weight. Now, running (or any exercise for those who for some reason can't run) increases your calorie rate and your metabolism in general so that you can eat the same and still lose weight.

But I agree with the guy in the video above. You need to figure out your BMR and not drop below the BMR. Otherwise, weight loss is not sustainable.

Intermittent fasting is also great, because it keeps your insulin levels in check so that the body becomes less likely to store excess calories as fat.

So if one combined intermittent fasting with watching calorie intake, adding some exercise and eating healthy foods with plenty of protein and good fats, that's a great recipe fo sustainable weight loss.

forlorn · « **Reply #63 on:** August 20, 2020, 08:31:13 PM »

Quote from: Ladislaus on August 20, 2020, 07:19:41 PM

I disagree somewhat. There was a scientist who ate nothing but Twinkies (and took vitamins not to ruin his health) and he lost weight. At the end of the day, weight loss is in fact using more calories than one consumes. NOW, when you reduce your calories, you do want to eat good food to maintain your health, and you want to take in good amounts of protein and fat so as not to lose muscle mass ... so I don't recommend the Twinkie diet. When I cut my calories some time ago, I always avoided WASTING calories on something useless like pop or a candy bar. For what this pop has in it, I could eat a small hamburger, I thought. But you could cut out sweets and fast food and still consume more calories than you use and GAIN weight. Now, running (or any exercise for those who for some reason can't run) increases your calorie rate and your metabolism in general so that you can eat the same and still lose weight.

But I agree with the guy in the video above. You need to figure out your BMR and not drop below the BMR. Otherwise, weight loss is not sustainable.

Intermittent fasting is also great, because it keeps your insulin levels in check so that the body becomes less likely to store excess calories as fat.

So if one combined intermittent fasting with watching calorie intake, adding some exercise and eating healthy foods with plenty of protein and good fats, that's a great recipe fo sustainable weight loss.

Or I agree that calories in - calories out is the scientific principle at play at the end of the day. But I don't think counting calories is sustainable for most people, and I think it's largely why people fail their diets. Go back 50+ years and being fat was very rare, even though the average person was much less educated on matters of nutrition than we are today(and they'd have very hard time finding calorie counts on their food). They simply ate better and on average exercised more.

Your body is generally very good at telling when you've eaten enough, but a big problem is the processed crap we eat nowadays is designed in such a way that it does little to sate your hunger for how calorific it is, to encourage you to eat more. If you're just eating meat and potatoes, etc., it's quite hard to overeat. You can of course, and I think a lot of us have trained ourselves over the years to have larger appetites than we should, but I'd wager it's pretty much impossible for a young man to get 90 pounds overweight eating just homemade cooking his whole life. You need sweets, fast food, sodas, etc. and other processed crap for that to happen.

So anyway, a long story short, I reckon just cutting out the blatantly unhealthy food and then exercising to burn a few hundred extra calories is a better and more sustainable starting point than trying to work out exactly how many calories are in each and every meal you eat.

The Mrs · « **Reply #64 on:** August 20, 2020, 09:59:00 PM »

Quote from: forlorn on August 20, 2020, 08:31:13 PM

Or I agree that calories in - calories out is the scientific principle at play at the end of the day. But I don't think counting calories is sustainable for most people, and I think it's largely why people fail their diets. Go back 50+ years and being fat was very rare, even though the average person was much less educated on matters of nutrition than we are today(and they'd have very hard time finding calorie counts on their food). They simply ate better and on average exercised more.

Your body is generally very good at telling when you've eaten enough, but a big problem is the processed crap we eat nowadays is designed in such a way that it does little to sate your hunger for how calorific it is, to encourage you to eat more. If you're just eating meat and potatoes, etc., it's quite hard to overeat. You can of course, and I think a lot of us have trained ourselves over the years to have larger appetites than we should, but I'd wager it's pretty much impossible for a young man to get 90 pounds overweight eating just homemade cooking his whole life. You need sweets, fast food, sodas, etc. and other processed crap for that to happen.

So anyway, a long story short, I reckon just cutting out the blatantly unhealthy food and then exercising to burn a few hundred extra calories is a better and more sustainable starting point than trying to work out exactly how many calories are in each and every meal you eat.

I think the reason people fail in their diets is because they crash diet. The trick is to stay above your Basal Metabolic Rate. Some people go well below that and are starving, essentially. This in turn sends their brain messages to binge and then they “fail” in their diet (really it’s not sustainable so they didn’t fail).
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I also don’t think it’s helpful to assume people are overweight because they just eat junk food all the time. Many people have hunger signals and cues that are completely out of wack from crash dieting and overeating, not to mention genetics.

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