Comment on Anon figures out how dieting works
MilitantVegan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Technically this is true, but in practice strict calorie deficit diets don’t work for most people. To be in a calorie deficit state is a state of starvation, and most people’s entire biological drives rail against it. What usually happens with these kinds of diets is the person will do well for a time, but the constant starving will drive them to either start unconsciously sneaking in more sources of calories, or they’ll outright rebound into eating even more than they did before.
Sustainable weight loss ultimately comes down to living healthy by default.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventist_Health_Studies
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
The problem with losing weight the healthy way is this. Go look up how many calories you burn per hour on various types of exercise. Now look at how much calories food has. That’s a lot of time you have to give up. Restricting food intake is “bad” but at least it’s passive.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This. It’s an absolute joke to lose weight through exercise. “But you can’t sustain deficit forever” well duh I never said I want to disappear. Lose the weight, then learn a new maintenance normal.
WoW@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
If you burn calories (exercise), and eat the same calories as before, you are in a calorie deficit. (The same as if you just eaten less).
If you eat exactly as much calories as you need to you can tecnically transform fat to muscles, but its really hard and you need to almost count every nutrient.
Most ppl reduce it too much and risk a rebound. Just eat 50/100 calories less than your daily burn rate and you are on the way. (It’s not really fast, but steady)