The body regulates the pulse of the heart. Humans generally can’t raise or lower their pulse by trying to raise or lower their pulse. I think the same is true with regards to the setpoint for weight.
So, what happens when someone loses 100 pounds and keeps it off for a lifetime? What happened when a 200 lb person becomes 100 lbs? How have they defied the setpoint?
I don’t have reason to believe that’s true in general.
“In sum, there is little support for the notion that diets lead to lasting weight loss or health benefits.”
Proper diet is a discipline, like any other discipline. Of course proper diet will contribute to health benefits, one of which is a healthy body weight. The benefits continue as long as the discipline continues. Like anything else.
What is the alternative? Eat whatever you please because the body has a setpoint that will be achieved regardless?
“These studies show that one third to two thirds of dieters regain more weight than they lost on their diets”
Somewhere between 33% and 67%? So, somewhere between most people succeed at dieting and most people fail. And this is evidence?
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I’m curious, what do you suggest for a general ELI5 weight loss plan? If someone weighs 200 lbs and decides they want to reduce their BMI to within a healthy range and get down to 150 lbs, how shall they proceed?
So, what happens when someone loses 100 pounds and keeps it off for a lifetime? What happened when a 200 lb person becomes 100 lbs? How have they defied the setpoint?
They did something that changed the setpoint.
Somewhere between 33% and 67%? So, somewhere between most people succeed at dieting and most people fail.
If you define success at dieting at not increasing your weight, I think you have different standards than most people.
I’m curious, what do you suggest for a general ELI5 weight loss plan? If someone weighs 200 lbs and decides they want to reduce their BMI to within a healthy range and get down to 150 lbs, how shall they proceed?
I don’t have the data to proof that a certain recommendation is the best, but ideas I consider to be promising are:
1) Check whether something like a virus produces unnecessary inflamation and fight the virus if there’s one.
2) Shangri La diet.
3) Hackers diet style charting.
4) Work through the surrounding psycholoigcal issues with a good hypnotherist or otherwise skilled person.
I don’t think the tricks from 2 to 4 are enough when the core reason is an illness that produces inflamation. Different people are likely overweight for different reasons and there won’t be a one-size-fits-all solution.
If you define success at dieting at not increasing your weight, I think you have different standards than most people.
Part of a healthy diet is managing calories in such a way that you remain at a healthy weight. It may be useful to create a calorie deficit for a limited time.
I’d guess many people likely fail at keeping a disciplined diet for a long time because it is hard to keep up discipline at anything for a long time. And our culture/lifestyle isn’t terribly conducive to staying lean.
Part of a healthy diet is managing calories in such a way that you remain at a healthy weight. It may be useful to create a calorie deficit for a limited time.
Then you are inconsitstent with what you called success above, where you call any small reduction or zero change in weight a success of dieting.
So, what happens when someone loses 100 pounds and keeps it off for a lifetime? What happened when a 200 lb person becomes 100 lbs? How have they defied the setpoint?
Proper diet is a discipline, like any other discipline. Of course proper diet will contribute to health benefits, one of which is a healthy body weight. The benefits continue as long as the discipline continues. Like anything else.
What is the alternative? Eat whatever you please because the body has a setpoint that will be achieved regardless?
Somewhere between 33% and 67%? So, somewhere between most people succeed at dieting and most people fail. And this is evidence?
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I’m curious, what do you suggest for a general ELI5 weight loss plan? If someone weighs 200 lbs and decides they want to reduce their BMI to within a healthy range and get down to 150 lbs, how shall they proceed?
They did something that changed the setpoint.
If you define success at dieting at not increasing your weight, I think you have different standards than most people.
I don’t have the data to proof that a certain recommendation is the best, but ideas I consider to be promising are: 1) Check whether something like a virus produces unnecessary inflamation and fight the virus if there’s one. 2) Shangri La diet. 3) Hackers diet style charting. 4) Work through the surrounding psycholoigcal issues with a good hypnotherist or otherwise skilled person.
I don’t think the tricks from 2 to 4 are enough when the core reason is an illness that produces inflamation. Different people are likely overweight for different reasons and there won’t be a one-size-fits-all solution.
Part of a healthy diet is managing calories in such a way that you remain at a healthy weight. It may be useful to create a calorie deficit for a limited time.
I’d guess many people likely fail at keeping a disciplined diet for a long time because it is hard to keep up discipline at anything for a long time. And our culture/lifestyle isn’t terribly conducive to staying lean.
Then you are inconsitstent with what you called success above, where you call any small reduction or zero change in weight a success of dieting.