Anonymous wrote:I purged all ultra processed foods and most refined sugar from my diet - I let myself have a pint of really simple 5 ingredient French ice cream once or twice a month if it really want it. I’m losing weight but the most amazing thing is that I feel younger than I have in many years - purging all those unhealthy additives and sugars and emulsifiers etc. has taken a decade off my skin and the way my joints feel. I wish I’d understood this years ago. I am eating really delicious food but all home cooked from whole fresh foods the only oil is evoo and I’m packing in the nutrient dense foods.

I literally feel a buzzing of vitality in my body, like I did as a teenager and in early adulthood years. I think our bodies can tolerate the standard American diet of 60%+ ultra processed foods when they are younger our organs endure it better, but as we and our organs age it takes a huge toll on health. But you can reverse chronic illness it in a matter of weeks - the research has well established this - by simply feeding your body the nutrient dense foods that evolved alongside us over millions of years. And you will feel the difference wonderfully, once you get the sugar monkey off your back and have detoxed a few weeks and your body adjusts to the bounty. It’s the fountain of youth but it requires shedding bad habits and that is hard, admittedly.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

Did you know there’s debate of how well the human body can even metabolize alcohol calories? Safe to say cutting wine won’t yield as much benefit as you think and certainly not 1:1 with food calories.

I don't even think there is much debate. Alcohol calories cannot be stored as fat...only used as energy, and not every calorie is uable by the body since it is a toxin. So your 120 pour of wine is more like 60 calories. Your body will use what it can as quickly as it can, and if it can't be used, it will be converted to acetic acid and excreted.

The thing is, your body pretty much stops burning any other energy ingested as it tries to get rid of the alcohol and this only counts for pure alcohol...no mixed cocktails.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Anonymous wrote:When I learned that 1 pound = 3500 calories, I cracked the code to healthier eating and weight loss. It wasn't that difficult to cut 3500 calories from my diet each week, losing 1 pound a week. For me, it was cutting out one restaurant meal a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

Did you know there’s debate of how well the human body can even metabolize alcohol calories? Safe to say cutting wine won’t yield as much benefit as you think and certainly not 1:1 with food calories.

I don't even think there is much debate. Alcohol calories cannot be stored as fat...only used as energy, and not every calorie is uable by the body since it is a toxin. So your 120 pour of wine is more like 60 calories. Your body will use what it can as quickly as it can, and if it can't be used, it will be converted to acetic acid and excreted.

The thing is, your body pretty much stops burning any other energy ingested as it tries to get rid of the alcohol and this only counts for pure alcohol...no mixed cocktails.

Huh. This is why I’ve continued losing weight by cutting food calories while still drinking my wine.

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Anonymous wrote:You cut 3500 calories from what?

From your 7000, 20000, 50000?

Do you think it matters?

You cut 3500 calories a week, or 500 calories a day, from either eating less or exercising more. And yes, it matters. You will lose 1 pound a week.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

No, it is not all calories in/out. You appear stuck in the 90s, having ignored all the advances in endocrinology, obesity research and neuroscience of the last 25 years. I highly recommend re-educating yourself from the brainwashing you are parroting here, or at least just shutting up with the calories in/out mantra you are parroting.

Start here, and for the assertion you need to get over, you can skip ahead to 35:00. And don’t for one minute come back here and tell us you are more knowledgeable on human metabolism than Dr. Lustig and his colleagues working in the field. Don’t let the big science-y words scare you, I’m sure you are up to the task of expanding your women’s magazines understanding of the topics discussed here: https://youtu.be/dFOaBrujDHo

Robert Lustig is… not very good at science. This critical review provided multiple examples of claims that are unclear, lacking context, or flat out false.

https://foodinsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Dr-Kern-Review-of-Fat-Chance-2.pdf

This person gets it. Whereas Ms "I'm sure you're up to the task of expanding your women's magazine understanding" can f off.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

I think if you want to lose 1 pound a week, which is a healthy weight loss, you cut out 500 calories a day. Or you workout and lose 500 calories. It's not that easy to workout and lose 500 calories a day.

McDonald's french fries, size small are around 400 calories.

Two cans of coke are around 400 calories.

Two candy bars are around 400 calories.

A microwave popcorn is around 300 calories.

Those are easy to cut out for people who eat like that but what women in DCUMlandia are drinking regular coke or eating TWO CANDY BARS a day?

A better idea is to cut out 5 glasses of wine (for those who have a glass with dinner). That's over 500 calories.

Did you know there’s debate of how well the human body can even metabolize alcohol calories? Safe to say cutting wine won’t yield as much benefit as you think and certainly not 1:1 with food calories.

I don't even think there is much debate. Alcohol calories cannot be stored as fat...only used as energy, and not every calorie is uable by the body since it is a toxin. So your 120 pour of wine is more like 60 calories. Your body will use what it can as quickly as it can, and if it can't be used, it will be converted to acetic acid and excreted.

The thing is, your body pretty much stops burning any other energy ingested as it tries to get rid of the alcohol and this only counts for pure alcohol...no mixed cocktails.

Anonymous wrote:I recently upped my walking game from an average of 6,000 steps a day (desk work from home) to 10,000. I am hungry allllll the time. It took me a week to realize I was compensating with more food with the increased movement. I am now aiming to replace that signal with drinking half my body weight in oz of water.

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Anonymous wrote:For some people, maybe it's about portion control of healthy foods. However, if you at two cups of green beans instead of one cup, I don't think that would cause an increase in calories.

There has to be something else, like eating larger portions of food higher in calories, like higher in saturated fat.

Yes, of course, it’s all calories in/calories out. Of course an extra 50 calories of sautéed green beans is a factor, but so is everything else.

It’s just incredibly stupid to think you’ve found some brilliant life hack in the form of “stop eating 2 snickers bars a day!”

Anyone who has struggled with weight more than a few months already knows that. And they are most likely also fighting their body’s natural inclination toward calorie compensation.

No, it is not all calories in/out. You appear stuck in the 90s, having ignored all the advances in endocrinology, obesity research and neuroscience of the last 25 years. I highly recommend re-educating yourself from the brainwashing you are parroting here, or at least just shutting up with the calories in/out mantra you are parroting.

Start here, and for the assertion you need to get over, you can skip ahead to 35:00. And don’t for one minute come back here and tell us you are more knowledgeable on human metabolism than Dr. Lustig and his colleagues working in the field. Don’t let the big science-y words scare you, I’m sure you are up to the task of expanding your women’s magazines understanding of the topics discussed here: https://youtu.be/dFOaBrujDHo

Robert Lustig is… not very good at science. This critical review provided multiple examples of claims that are unclear, lacking context, or flat out false.

https://foodinsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Dr-Kern-Review-of-Fat-Chance-2.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:When I learned that 1 pound = 3500 calories, I cracked the code to healthier eating and weight loss. It wasn't that difficult to cut 3500 calories from my diet each week, losing 1 pound a week. For me, it was cutting out one restaurant meal a week.

This isn't exactly "news" --- but glad you learned something today.

And this is why you CANNOT EXERCISE YOUR WAY OUT OF A BAD DIET. If you are eating too much, it is impossible to just go to the gym and magically get the body you've always wanted. An hour on the eliptical or treadmill or even in an aerobics class is only going to be a few hundred calories burned at best. If you are drinking frappacinos and eating out a lot (portions WAY too big plus all the yummy fat they add to everything), you could throw down 900 calories with that frappacino and another 2000 with one eat-out meal. There simply aren't enough hours in the day for you to exercise all that away.

I always cringe when January rolls around and a bunch of new people are in the cubes at the gym signing up for a membership and training sessions. That's all good stuff for your body, and your mind. But, that isn't how you are going to drop those extra 50 lbs you've been lugging around.

Gotta change how you eat. And get moving so that you are busy and away from snacking opportunities. Engage the mind and body, but you HAVE to reduce those portions.

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Anonymous wrote:Divided by five is 500 cal a week. Assuming maintaining a current diet , does that mean I need to set my Apple Watch move ring to 500 to start seeing weight loss?

anything that counts calories burned through exercise is highly inaccurate.

Agree with this. The estimates for calorie burn from exercise are all over the place and highly inaccurate. The treadmills at my gym show calorie burn, but one of the trainers told me the other day that the calorie burn is based on a 28-year-old, 180 pound man. That’s not me.

Consider exercise what you do for your health, but when it comes to wait loss, it’s about what you eat and how much. Most people over-estimate how many calories they are burning and under-estimate how much they are eating.

Track calories using My Fitness Pal or another app. For a few weeks, track every bite you put in your mouth to get an accurate handle on how many calories you are actually taking in. What you are eating makes a difference - not just what, but how much. The person who mentioned nibbling while making kids’ lunches is right - it’s the sneaky calories that add up. It doesn’t have to be french fries and candy bars, you can gain wait from healthy food too, if you are eating too much of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Fasting. Give your body a break so it can start eating the fat you already have.
No sugar or carbs that trigger insulin. Then go exercise.

This is not how it works. There is no "jumpstarting" fat loss by fasting. Insulin triggering is another buzz word that means nothing,

I also don't know what this jumpstarting is. However, fasting can reduce your appetite and that I know for a fact. I have done it and it is true. You stop eating breakfast, you will not crave it after 2 days, you will not be hungry in the mornings, at all. Same with dinner. Ghrelin kicks in due to what your body expects, we are biologically adapted to cope.