I think the alternative is that it was a joke
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kadup@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt’s important to notice that while an underlying medical issue is certainly likely in your situation, and that’s hard to work against… There’s no physical way you were actually ingesting 200 daily calories and didn’t lose weight.
This is beyond biology, it’s physical. You were either consuming way more than that, or you were actually losing weight and just didn’t notice. There’s no alternative.
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Zexks@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s not funny anymore as to many think it’s a legitimate response.
misterdoctor@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I think it was a legitimate response but just exaggerated for the purposes of comedy
skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Huh? Joke? On the Internet? No way.
TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean they said every other day, if one day they get 200 and the next they get 5000 they ain’t losing weight…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are they doing that or is this just a “stupid idiot is clearly just cheating” blanket retort?
Had a friend who was overweight and got into long distance running. He went from 300 lbs to a lean, mean 140. Then he injured his knee and had to give to his sport. Simple diet didn’t work, he steadily put on 100 lbs over the next two years.
That’s got nothing to do with intake and everything to do with metabolism
gamer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This is like vaccine skepticism.
Fat people are fat because they eat too much.
If Bob has a “slow metabolism”, then Bob should stop eating desert after dinner if he doesn’t want to be fat.
Speculater@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Plus, there relatively little variation between all humans in their resting metabolism. We’re talking 600 calories from the slowest metabolisms to the fastest.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You can have the same diet your entire life and fluctuate in weight significantly.
Anything else? Breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Is your singular goal your weight or do you have any other considerations?
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
People “eat too much” because there’s something that’s already wrong with them that causes them to eat too much.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, unfortunately this kinda only goes one way. No matter your metabolism, if you starve yourself you will lose weight. It’s literally physically impossible for you to not. It’s just difficult and wildly unhealthy to lose weight that way.
Whereas the opposite is not neccassarily true, depending on your metabolism you very well might be able to eat as nuch as you want. You might even have to eat more than you are comfortable with just to maintain your weight, which is what I deal with. With the right metabolism, there could be a situation where there is no upper limit on how much you could eat without gaining weight.
Caveats include: obviously if you eat a pound of food your weight goes up by a pound, but assuming you are similar to me, after that passes through you your weight goes back down to effectively the exact same as it was before you ate. Im not glorifying a fast metabolism here, in fact my metabolism is no fast that I don’t get most of the nutients i eat and am therefore perpetually malnourished no matter what or how much I eat. I spend more on food to maintain my weight than i do on literally everything else combined, excluding rent, and maybe gas.
Oddly, although scaling my food does not seem to scale nutrients from my food, scaling my caloric burn does seem to impact my appetite. When I was working a physical job, i was consuming about 4000 calories/day and most of the time i felt like I was on the edge of passing out from never ending fatigue. I’d wake up and spend every moment of the day starving. Now, i work a very relaxed job and my appetite has vanished. I often go days without eating and dont seem to be losing a significant amount of weight, unlike back when. Although when I do eat I tend to eat multiple huge meals in a day, often about once/twice a week, and my weight afterwards doesnt seem to go up, it just stops going down for a day or two. The only way for me to gain weight seems to be to lose it first, I literally cannot get above 160lb at 6"2’
TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’m not an expert but I believe that everyone needs different intakes, depending on metabolism and activity, but if you go lower you lose weight. I went through a diet where the only thing I did was count the calories, and it worked really well.