exfatloss

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by exfatloss 3y ago
Unfortunately I'm with the other guy here. I think reducing excess sugar consumption is necessary but not sufficient to get lean for some obese individuals like myself. When I started keto 7 years ago I lost 100lbs. Then I gained it al
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I think starch only breaks into glucose, not fructose.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
From tasting food?
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Ha, ok. On the other hand I'd argue "evidence it's genetic" is also clearly false. There are certainly genetic factors that make some people vulnerable but our genetics haven't changed that much in the last 30 years
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I'd argue "less activity than what's consumed" is not causal but an accounting of what's already happened. Just like "more money in your bank account" is a mere measurement, whereas "getting paid for
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Do you have an example? Besides banning big gulps and ineffectual ad campaigns I don't recall much policy on the topic.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
> The three-day meeting was infused with an implicit understanding of what obesity is not: a personal failing. This weird push that "it's not a moral personal failing" is so strange. Is anybody serious claiming it is? Sure
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I gave up on fasting for weight loss as well. It's just another form of caloric restriction and that just doesn't work for me. My body is just too efficient: it immediately turns down the metabolic rate to adjust. I've done 5
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I stopped because I wasn't seeing any effects. Also makes it more difficult to eat enough in a day (I was doing OMAD for a while). That said my natural eating rhythm is not to eat breakfast so if you discount cream in coffee I'm d
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Oh, I see. Hope you succeed. If this technology makes its way into the Apple watch or AirPod we'll reduce T2D by 100 million over night.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Very cool! I'm currently wearing a CGM. I already love these and find them super non-invasive (Freestyle Libre 3). It's a penny that sits on your arm and every 14 days you change it for 1 minute. But this would probably be even co
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Yea for sure. I think another major benefit would be that it wouldn't just be available for T1Ds or curious/severe T2Ds or nerds like me. Getting an Rx and paying $200/mo is a huge opt-in hurdle. If this was on by default in
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Interesting. But yea, it seems our digestive systems can adapt to it pretty well, given that we've been doing this since long before doctors were around. I suppose the acid kills all the bacteria in the rotten meat unless you're s
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Current CGMs (Continuous Glucose Monitors) are amazingly non-invasive and easy to use. I'm wearing one right now and I can't feel it. I'm using the Freestyle Libre 3. It's the size of a penny on my upper arm. I don'
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by exfatloss 3y ago
The book The Fat of the Land by Vilhjalmur Stefansson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson ) describes how the Eskimos he lived with ate rotten fish all the time. It was a delicacy for them. Kind of like
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Those studies have been debunked. Current state of science is that there is no indication that reduction of red meat consumption would bring any health benefits.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I think quite the opposite - a beef-only diet, very high in fat, is probably the evolutionary diet we're most adapted too. After all we only started cultivating grains about 10,000 years ago. It was large, fatty megafauna for hundreds
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I think animal foods are very healthy and the CO2 emissions/environmental effects of cattle are usually overblown. One "study" I saw claimed cattle used 1000000x more water than grains. But they counted the rainfall on the en
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by exfatloss 3y ago
2012, but still interesting. Thanks for posting.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Thanks, that means a lot :)
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Wow, ok, 3-4h a day is a ton of course.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Hm, not sure how long my walk is. Probably 2 miles or so? Maybe I need to walk faster :)
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I love how science is finding this out. Everybody who's ever dieted has known this. Hilarious.
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Walking doesn't help much with weight loss either, I suspect. Didn't seem to make a difference for me if I walked 0 minutes or 45-60 minutes every day (over a couple months). I think the metabolism's feedback system just inco
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Lol what? The graph in the article clearly shows that low-carb leads to nearly 2x the initial weight loss than low-fat and that this difference stays present as people "normalize" back to a more normal weight. Clearly the low-carb
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I had no idea about Starting Strength being famous for that. I did notice that Rippetoe is very nonchalant about obesity lol, like it doesn't matter as long as you can lift stuff. Thanks!
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by exfatloss 3y ago
I find "unwilling to not be useful. I am perfectly willing to make a lot of sacrifices to lose weight. It's just that none of the sacrifices you list have an effect. Why would I continue to sacrifice it it doesn't work? So I
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Well, agree to disagree then. I think I'm not a major outlier. I'm pretty representative of an obese person who's been trying to lose weight his entire life and none of the mainstream advice has ever made a dent. That's
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by exfatloss 3y ago
In a sense I agree that it's philosophical. But I think in a practical sense it matters because you'd recommend different modes of action. You seem to think that the obese are "unwilling" (whatever that means) to eat les
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by exfatloss 3y ago
Thanks, I'm quite familiar with Lyle McDonald's work. One of the first to introduce keto to the mainstream, IIRC. - Starvation experiments are not relevant to a normal person trying to lose fat. Ancel Keys' subjects were mili

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