Reply to Weight loss drugs—is it just eating less calories??

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "Weight loss drugs—is it just eating less calories??"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My teenage dd eats a ton more than I do and is super thin. No she doesn’t purge. It’s definitely not CiCO or I would be as thin as she is :)[/quote]

No, you wouldn't. Your assumption is that you, a middle aged woman, have the same energy expenditure and metabolism as a teenager. CICO takes metabolism and energy expenditure into account.

If we could, with 100% accuracy, determine someone's energy expenditure and that was the same every day for 2 people and they ate the same calories as that number they would weigh the same and if they ate that number they would not lose or gain weight.  [/quote]

Well then I feel like it’s worthless to judge people then, if we do take metabolism into account, because most days I walk many more steps per day than my dd does as part of my job and some weeks I work out a lot more than she does and yet she continues to be a stick when I’m decidedly not. So why do we talk about this as a calculation?[/quote]

Are you for real? I am not judging anyone. I eat well but too many calories, exercise and I am overweigh. I work out hard and still struggle to lose weight. I know plenty of people who are thin and don't take care of themselves.  I also know that if you locked me in a room and put me on a 900 cal/day diet I would lose weight. I would be hungry and miserable but my body would burn my fat for the extra energy it needs.

Now is it fair that I have to eat far less than someone else to lose weight, no, but that is life.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics