A Lesson From the Biggest Losers: Exercise Keeps Off the Weight
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/...eight-loss.html |
Guess we were all too busy ruining other people's children's teeth to see this. :lol:
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Interesting take on this. There's calories in/calories out as a simple thing where failure is overindulgence and lack of diligence in exercise, lots of people do mean this. Then there's Hall's take, acknowledging that tackling calories in and out head on can be extremely difficult for some people--what looks like failure to try to a judgemental stranger can be the result of a downright heroic effort. Sometimes CICO advocates get unfairly accused of blame the vicim. Activity is seen as a cause here rather than an effect. Pour two cups of water into a 250 ml glass and a 500 ml glass. I guess you could say overflow caused the 250 ml glass to hold less water. But it's pretty clear the lesser capacity of the cup caused the overflow. Quote:
The drive to be active is as much subject to a drop after weightloss as other things that go into overall metabolic rate. It's not universal. Some rat strains, given access to a running wheel, will do themselves real damage, quicken starvation on a reduced calorie diet with excessive running. Others will become less active with calorie restriction. My most recent day's food makes a big difference to how long I want my workouts to be. Many people get antsy if they sit too long, two people could be at the same body composition/weight, same basal metabolic rate, but one gets twitchy if they sit long enough, the other doesn't. |
I am in maintenance (if that is what you want to call it). According to my phone fitness app I've done over 90 minutes of moderate activity for 10 out of the last 12 months. I do lots of walking, both structured and just normal daily activity. My best month was July where I averaged a 156 minutes of moderate activity each day. My worst months were August & September where I averaged 84 minutes and 80 minutes respectively. Over July and August I decided I would try taking a break from tracking my meals for the first time in a long time. I'd just eat my normal low carb/high fat foods and let satiety rule the day. It didn't work out too well. I gained a few pounds each month. In August and early September my eating was up and my walking routine got a little inconsistent. I didn't like the trend with the weight, so in September I started tracking my food again. I lost some weight in September, even though it was my lowest month for exercise volume.
I think that my exercise allows me to eat how much I eat and maintain reasonable weight stability. When I cut down on the exercise I tend to want to continue to eat about the same. If I do that I will gain. But what seems to rule the day for me is tracking and limiting my food. That was stated as a key for a couple of 'successful maintainers' in the article above, but the headline and conclusions of this study appear to overlook that. Eating low carb makes it possible for me to eat less. It keeps my blood sugar under control and turns me into a fat burner. If I went back to eating carbs, I'm pretty sure that my insulin would rise sufficiently to shut down my fat burning machine. I'd probably stop walking shortly thereafter. That is how it has always worked out in the past. Every time I went on a low carb diet for any length of time I would start to exercise. I even enjoyed the exercise. Every time I went back to eating a junky diet, the exercise would stop. Why would I stop something that I enjoyed doing? So my 2 cents on this is that they are getting it backwards. When I continue to eat right I want to exercise and therefore I do a better job at maintenance. I've been in maintenance for 16 months now. On most other diet attempts where I fell off the wagon and returned to eating SAD I'd have regained all of the weight loss and more by now. I'd be eating poorly, over-eating, and not exercising. For me DIET is the key to maintenance - specifically a low carb diet. Enjoying exercise and an active lifestyle is a welcome perk that appears to go hand in hand with how well I am eating. |
Its sad to see what theBL guy is going through. my dad was his size and bigger. Before my dada pasted, he told me he did notwant me to end up like him. I will horror the promise for life.
Also As you all know I had a heart transplant (It's borrowed time), So I can not go back to eating carby junk. Plus I love bacon, and baked wings. lol |
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