Do people still believe: dieting, starvation mode, body hold onto fat.

Gary Player says Americans, and now some of the Chinese, eat too much. We're all fat as shite


The less you eat, the longer you live.

I don't really know what your post means Rust.

My brain just burned 5000 calories reading the OP

Ummm.

I literally learning this stuff right now. It's truth. There are biochemical mechanisms in place for your body to store more fat when in a fasting state.

Your understanding of it is just very skewed, obviously.

If you don't eat, then you obviously won't "hold on to fat" because you need energy. But if you're in a fasting state (i.e. haven't been eating much) and then you eat a meal, your body will try to save as much of it as possible (as fat) for use for the next period of fasting.

From an evolutionary standpoint this makes sense, as humans were historically hunter gatherers and there was never a certainty of when the next meal would be.


The point is, if you try to lose weight by simply severely lowering your caloric intake, when you inevitably stop dieting your body will store as much as possible as fat and you'll bounce right back to where you were. This is why fad diets don't last.

Weight loss is as simple as take in less calories than you burn. Best way to do this is to decrease your calories some, but not starve yourself, and increase calories burned.


If you don't follow any of that, stop stuffing yourself and exercise more, and you'll lose weight.

If you reduce your caloric intake you will lose weight. If you reduce your sodium intake you will lose water weight. Fat people like to rationalize and say "I don't eat anything...it's my metabolism." They're lying.

An aside...I read an article today in the WSJ about honesty. One question: "Have you ever told the truth even though it hurt you?" The answer I came up with was easy. When I was 18 I had a beautiful GF, about 5-7, 120. But she ate like a pig.

I told her, "If you don't change your eating habits your metabolism is gonna change and you're gonna be fat." She broke up with me.

Fast forward to 2013. I visited an old friend in New Iberia. Him: "I saw your old girlfriend from HS. She weighs about 300 pounds."

She can't say that I didn't warn her. She could have been Mrs. Zach.

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Our bodies may have those mechanisms, but not enough to warrant a personal trainer saying "dont skip breakfast or you'll go into starvation mode and then you wont lose any weight."

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When you skip breakfast, remember you're coming off of 8ish+ hrs of no calorie intake. All you're setting yourself up to do is overcompensate with the next meal. Your body will go into "starvation mode" to an extent because you still need energy and you haven't taken anything in 16 hours. You're better off eating breakfast. Taking in less than you burn will cause you to lose weight, but there are healthier ways of doing it.

The most important part of losing weight is burning off calories. You can only healthily cut so much out on the intake side before you start depriving yourself of necessary amounts of vitamins, essential AAs, essential FA, etc.


I think you're trying to explain things you don't understand

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I smoke and take large doses of amphetamine. You should try it.

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Uhh. Bad advise pal. Unless by "taking amphetamine" you really mean smoking amphetamine. By far the better option for weight loss. Not saying it's the best out there, but you don't have the track marks that dieters on the spike have.

What the frick ever.

Eating sensibly and exercising does the trick for 90% of the population.