Don't eat, fast?

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Anonymous wrote:You 100% will. You will run into people who say that "dieting doesn't work," and that "it's not that simple" but it definitely is. To put a finer point on it: When groups are uniformly starved they all lose weight. Maybe at slightly different rates, but they just do. Look at any photo of famine victims or war crime victims and it's not like there is some guy there whose body just wouldn't drop the weight.

OK, is famine and war crime the lifestyle you want while you lose weight??!?!

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Anonymous wrote:You will also wreck your metabolism. You will starve your brain, and it takes longer to heal than your body. You will cause your body to assume you are experiencing a famine, and it will pack fat around your organs to protect them. Ask yourself is some goal weight is worth the damage you will cause.

Utter bollocks.

No, it isn’t.

A 72 hour water fast for autophagy and healing is okay and has been studied with regard to muscle loss and is considered negligible.

But long term fasting or very low calorie diet will waste muscle mass along with fat, and when the weight comes back on you’ll gain all fat and no muscle and end up with a damaged metabolism and a harder road to losing weight in future.

A modest calorie deficit combined with weight training is the responsible, healthy approach to weight loss and cannot be expected to provide dramatic or fast results. Fast weight loss is never healthy in the long term.

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God help the daughters of these posters.

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Anonymous wrote:The easiest way for me to lose weight is following "OMAD" - one meal a day. I have never been a breakfast person, but skipping lunch and having one really delicious, filling meal for dinner is my preference. I find it easier to stay on track if I'm not snacking throughout the day and eating extra stuff.

A friend got bariatric surgery 1.5 yrs ago and her after surgery diet was sooo little. Like 2 bites of meat and 2 bites of veggies. Of course you lose drastic amounts of weight if you eat so little. You dont even need the surgery!

I've seen this also with a relative who had the surgery.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The easiest way for me to lose weight is following "OMAD" - one meal a day. I have never been a breakfast person, but skipping lunch and having one really delicious, filling meal for dinner is my preference. I find it easier to stay on track if I'm not snacking throughout the day and eating extra stuff.

A friend got bariatric surgery 1.5 yrs ago and her after surgery diet was sooo little. Like 2 bites of meat and 2 bites of veggies. Of course you lose drastic amounts of weight if you eat so little. You dont even need the surgery!

I've seen this also with a relative who had the surgery.

The rates of weight regain, alcoholism and other substance use disorders and suicide among bariatric patients are very high. Bariatric surgeons will only tell patients about the short term success rates of their patients because of course those are quite high - starved people lose weight rapidly and substantially, and cutting out most of the stomach and the mechanism for nutrient absorption results in starvation in the short term.

Long term a very high number of patients learn to overeat by consuming liquid calories and/or alcohol and many of them become very mentally unwell because they have removed their coping strategy (food addiction) and have nothing to replace it with because the mental health supports provided to bariatric patients are laughable.