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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, the scientist is ignoring the laws of thermodynamics so...[/quote]

You don't know much about science, do you?[/quote]

New poster here. I don't know much about science, but I dI'd know enough that at the age of 37 after having two kids I managed to lose 40lbs. and I know enough of how to have kept it off for 5 years now.

I will give you FREE advice. I did it by eating less, making better food choices, and moving more. It is that simple. not very scientific,  bit it works every single time. My DH did the exact same thing and lost 80lbs.

Because I'm now a regular at the gym I've also seen dozens of people do...wait for it.....THE EXACT SAME THING![/quote]

I've seen my wife eat well and exercise like a fiend only to hit a plateau that's about 25 pounds above where she'd like to be. Bodies metabolize food differently, and you have to account for that. [/quote]

Not the PP you responded to: I am loathe to contradict you but my experience has been that people consume a lot more calories than they think they are doing. Exercise plays a vital role but ultimately one has to limit what one eats. I say this from personal experience. When I was trying to lose weight I limited my intake to 1600 calories daily. It took remarkably little food to get to that number.

I will also endorse what the PP said about seeing people at the gym losing weight gradually over a period of time. [/quote]

I appreciate that I'm just a random person on the Internet and, you're right, people generally do consume a lot more calories than they think. That said I believe my wife shoots for 1,200 calories per day. She measures her food and everything. By contrast, at age 40, I eat a shit ton more than her, exercise less, have a BMI of 21.5, and body fat of 16 - 17% or so. There is no question that our bodies process food differently. [/quote]

First, thanks for your courteous response.

There is no question that people process food differently. Most of the calories consumed for the average person is from what I believe is termed "basal metabolism" which is essentially what the human body needs to just function even absent any activity. Some people do seem to have much faster metabolism and certainly one's metabolism slows down as one gets older and for a woman hormonal changes also plays a big part.

I find it interesting that some racial groups like the Asians who tend to be skinny despite eating well - and eating carbs such as rice - seem to see a change in their metabolism after being in the US for a few decades. I cannot explain why this happens but it does cause one to wonder what it is in our food that seems to cause this slowing down in the metabolism.[/quote]

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