Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works

• trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve personally found lower deficits to be more maintainable over time, with a big deficit you can see the effects really fast but I also find that my weight was more prone to rubberband very quickly after stopping the diet.

  If you can maintain a super low deficit and then keep the weight that way after that’s great, I just don’t think it’s really universally applicable.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lower deficits and exercising are much more effective to lose weight long term instead of doing the yo-yo like the majority of people who believe in diets.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I didn’t have much money, and my doctor told me I was eating twice as much as I should so I figured I’d cut my grocery bills in half. One trick I learned was that if I was hungry I’d drink a big glass of water and wait fifteen minutes. If I was still hungry I’d have more water and wait another fifteen minutes. If I was still hungry I’d have a small bowl of pasta or rice with vegetables.

  Got down to my ideal weight in about six months, alongside a lot of manual labor getting and keeping a house ready for sale. It also helped that I didn’t have a significant other, so mealtimes weren’t social.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goes up with physical activity AND weight no matter the source (muscle or fat).

  You need to keep eating way more than 2200 calories a day in order to be stable at a weight of 300lbs even if you don’t do any exercise.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t say way more. If you cut your weight in half then you can expect to cut your calorie requirements by at most a third.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      livestrong.com/…/360894-weight-loss-plans-for-a-3…

      4200 for a 300lbs man that doesn’t exercise.

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That doesn’t seem related to my comment, are you sure that you can read English?

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• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1 pound of body fat = 3500 calories, so if your normal caloric requirement is 2500 calories a day and you instead eat 2000 calories a day, you will lose one pound a week. Which doesn’t sound like a lot but if you keep that up for one year you can lose 52 pounds - which is a lot.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Alright, but the daily expenditure will go down alongside your current weight. The average* 35 y/o 5’9’ man, who exercises at least 30min a day 5 days a week, who weighs 217 will maintain weight at 2,871 while at 165 lbs will maintain at 2,452.

    *average is emphasized to help explain why the calorie number is larger than in previous comments, which were a minimum estimate.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A 420 calorie drop from a 52-pound weight loss implies a resting metabolic requirement for body fat tissue of about 8 calories per pound, which I think is a serious overestimate but I’m not sure. I’ve seen some sources claim 2 calories per pound for fat and 6 calories per pound for muscle, but other sources have claimed significantly higher amounts.

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s really hard to pin down consistent numbers on this subject due to both interpersonal differences and demographic trends in data.

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