Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• takeda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yeah, it is not easy.

  We seem to have primarily high calorie foods. The reason people change diets to get some low calorie ones that keep them feeling full.

  Another thing, but perhaps not as much related to losing weight is that food doesn’t exactly work like most people think i.e. it isn’t that we consume something then we get energy from it and then we excrement it. In reality our body absorbes the food and uses it for other functions. So unhealthy food still affects us negatively.

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  • GenEcon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most people don’t realize we loose weight by breathing, not excrements. You breath in O2, you breath out CO2. Same volume (since gases have more or less the same volume per molecule), but 37.5 % heavier. That’s how you loose weight.

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  • emberwit@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So what ist better, eating less or eating unhealthy?

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or the same quantity and start being active, much more likely to keep up with it long term as well.

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t outrun your fork. If OOP had 150lbs to lose, it’s unlikely he could’ve continued eating the same amount and burnt that weight off.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’re at maintenance at 2500 and start doing more physical activities you’re burning more calories.

      “You can’t outrun your fork” doesn’t mean you can’t increase how much you’re burning without increasing how much you’re eating, the result is the same, in that case you’re not depriving yourself and for this reason the results tend to stick.

      Source: GF is a dietitian

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      • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I get it, but if homie was 150 lbs overweight then he was probably eating wayyyy more than maintenance and would’ve continued to gain if he didn’t change his eating habits.

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  • imecth@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The problem about being active, is that the moment you stop you'll put the weight right back on. Most people don't take up going to the gym for decades, it'll last a few months, maybe a few years. Long term weight management needs to be about food intake.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Physical activity make you generate hormones that push you to continue doing it, weight management through food intake does the contrary, weight management through increased activity has much better long term results than going on a diet.

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Physical activity make you generate hormones that push you to continue doing it

        I don’t experience this at all. I don’t enjoy working out at all even after years of doing it consistently. I still have to force myself every time.

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    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re correct in that you need to stay active, but I don’t think that’s as unachievable as you make out.

      Going to the gym sucks. Exercise for the sake of exercise will get boring unless you’re one of the few who actually enjoys being at the gym.

      Most people can find some kind of exercise they actually enjoy. For me it’s cycling. I started when I was 30 and I’ll admit there’s been a few patches where I haven’t been on the bike but it’s built up to something I truly enjoy 12 years later. This month I’m on track for more than an hour on the bike every day with no gaps.

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