Unpopular Opinion: Weightloss

[Anonymous]

Once you hit perimenopause, your body needs 50% less food

[Anonymous]

DCUMs personal trainer weight loss quacks are getting stressed about Ozempic again, I see.

[Anonymous]

My unpopular opinion is that if you are doing any sort of competitive exercise, weight loss will hurt your performance. You can't have both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you “are only eating 1200 calories” and “can’t” lose weight then you aren’t really “only” eating 1200 calories.

Unless you have metabolic or thyroid problems.

I watch my skinny friends eat dessert, drink alcohol and soft drinks, while I drink my yummy water. And am still "fat."

Yeah right. We both know if you were locked up and fed spinach and chicken and healthy food you would lose weight immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best way to lose weight is to eat less. Dieting makes you obsess with food and inevitably leads to overeating.

Isn’t eating less dieting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you hit perimenopause, your body needs 50% less food

What? No. I need about 1750 a day to maintain weight. I doubt in a few years my maintenance caloric intake is going to drop to below 900 a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My unpopular opinion is that if you are doing any sort of competitive exercise, weight loss will hurt your performance. You can't have both.

That is a very wrong opinion. I was a D1 athlete and had too much body fat during my first two years. I then decided to take the weight lifting more seriously, started doing more HIIT because of a new coach who was a big fan of it, and started eating less and healthier. I dropped 12% of my body fat and lost 15 pounds overall. I became a more explosive athlete and improved my performance across the board. At that time I could do a bunch of pull ups and dips. Now in middle age I am built more like my freshman year self and I am back to not being able to do any despite being in decent shape. I know I would need to lose weight in order to get them back. Right now there's just too much of me to pull up! I still have muscle but there's too much fat on top of it to be "lean and mean". I am generally fine with this because I'm not training for anything anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My unpopular opinion is that if you are doing any sort of competitive exercise, weight loss will hurt your performance. You can't have both.

Idk about weight loss as a goal, but eating really healthy which might result in weight loss would not hurt performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you “are only eating 1200 calories” and “can’t” lose weight then you aren’t really “only” eating 1200 calories.

Unless you have metabolic or thyroid problems.

I watch my skinny friends eat dessert, drink alcohol and soft drinks, while I drink my yummy water. And am still "fat."

Yeah right. We both know if you were locked up and fed spinach and chicken and healthy food you would lose weight immediately.

DP - We don't exist that way though. Most of us exist around tons of food temptations, people we have to feed. When I was poor and on my own, yes, I was thinner. I was not a stronger or better person with more willpower than I am now. Being thin was the easy part of my life that happened due to circumstances.

[Anonymous]

Weight yourself at least weekly, forever. More frequently if you are actively trying to lose weight. 10+ pounds doesn’t appear overnight. If you can catch weight gain when the numbers are small it is so much easier to get back on track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once you hit perimenopause, your body needs 50% less food

What? No. I need about 1750 a day to maintain weight. I doubt in a few years my maintenance caloric intake is going to drop to below 900 a day.

No I need to eat 1200 to maintain weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you “are only eating 1200 calories” and “can’t” lose weight then you aren’t really “only” eating 1200 calories.

Unless you have metabolic or thyroid problems.

I watch my skinny friends eat dessert, drink alcohol and soft drinks, while I drink my yummy water. And am still "fat."

Yeah right. We both know if you were locked up and fed spinach and chicken and healthy food you would lose weight immediately.

DP - We don't exist that way though. Most of us exist around tons of food temptations, people we have to feed. When I was poor and on my own, yes, I was thinner. I was not a stronger or better person with more willpower than I am now. Being thin was the easy part of my life that happened due to circumstances.

Ok, but not being able to resist temptation is different from blaming weight gain on metabolism problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is (most likely) nothing wrong with your metabolism, if you can’t lose weight it’s because you are eating to much.

+100

And if you “can’t lose weight on 1200 cal a day” you’re either 4 ft tall or you’re bite really eating 1200 cal a day every day.

You can actually lose eating even more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you hit perimenopause, your body needs 50% less food

100% not true. Metabolism does not change that much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My unpopular opinion is that if you are doing any sort of competitive exercise, weight loss will hurt your performance. You can't have both.

That is a very wrong opinion. I was a D1 athlete and had too much body fat during my first two years. I then decided to take the weight lifting more seriously, started doing more HIIT because of a new coach who was a big fan of it, and started eating less and healthier. I dropped 12% of my body fat and lost 15 pounds overall. I became a more explosive athlete and improved my performance across the board. At that time I could do a bunch of pull ups and dips. Now in middle age I am built more like my freshman year self and I am back to not being able to do any despite being in decent shape. I know I would need to lose weight in order to get them back. Right now there's just too much of me to pull up! I still have muscle but there's too much fat on top of it to be "lean and mean". I am generally fine with this because I'm not training for anything anymore.

That story applies to a teenage D1 athlete and not a middle aged office worker.