re: Study of Biggest Losers finds that the body wants and will fight to be Fat

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Dr. Margaret Jackson, who is directing a project at Pfizer. Her group is testing a drug that, in animals at least, acts like leptin, a hormone that controls hunger.

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Amazing that a drug company is involved in the research. Just trying to figure out a away to sell the sheep more drugs that they done need.

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I know, right?! It's crazy that a drug company would try to develop a profitable drug!

Being fat has always been a sign of wealth

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He quit his job as a land surveyor to do it.

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Isn't surveying a pretty active job where you're on your feet walking around all day? Maybe he shouldn't have quit.

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Keto fail

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Look, I am all about metabolic flexibility with appropriate use/timing of carbs, but low carb diets out perform low fat (high carb diets by default)

LINK

This journal article was co-authored by 26 leaders in nutrition science....

[The inability of current recommendations to control the epidemic of diabetes, the specific failure of the prevailing low-fat diets to improve obesity, cardiovascular risk, or general health and the persistent reports of some serious side effects of commonly prescribed diabetic medications, in combination with the continued success of low-carbohydrate diets in the treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome without significant side effects, point to the need for a reappraisal of dietary guidelines. The benefits of carbohydrate restriction in diabetes are immediate and well documented. Concerns about the efficacy and safety are long term and conjectural rather than data driven. Dietary carbohydrate restriction reliably reduces high blood glucose, does not require weight loss (although is still best for weight loss), and leads to the reduction or elimination of medication. It has never shown side effects comparable with those seen in many drugs. Here we present 12 points of evidence supporting the use of low-carbohydrate diets as the first approach to treating type 2 diabetes and as the most effective adjunct to pharmacology in type 1. They represent the best-documented, least controversial results. The insistence on long-term random- ized controlled trials as the only kind of data that will be accepted is without precedent in science. The seriousness of diabetes requires that we evaluate all of the evidence that is available. The 12 points are sufficiently compelling that we feel that the burden of proof rests with those who are opposed]








This is figure 9 from the article. I cannot emphasize the importance of understanding this enough (the article also stresses this).

Pink bars are low carb group.

Note the improvements in weight, glucose control (HbA1c), HDL and trigycerides (as pointed out on the chart). Improvement in all metabolic parameters.

With regards to the researcher in your 2 month jailhouse simulation study....

When I decided to lose weight, the first thing I did was count calories. When I did that, I found I ate healthier anyway because then I could get more food for the calories.

I also tried to figure out a way to curb cravings. Right than power through them or try to ignore them, I found alternatives.

When I want something sweet, I specifically will go for either a honey crisp apple, or a bowl of lightly sweetened cereal like Fiber One honey oat clusters.

Most of my meals still included meats, but typically very lean ones like turkey or tuna. Tuna sandwiches with sandwich rounds worked like a charm.

I got out of the good eating habits when my wife and I got married and I moved to a town with great eating. That said, lately I've lost weight again by getting a job that got me out of my desk a lot (I'm an IT Analyst, but the new one requires me to visit individuals a lot - just walking to and from the parking deck and around the building I get 2-3 miles a day (I loaded a pedometer onto my smartphone to verify just how much I've been walking). In just that time frame (started the job 3 months ago), I've dropped from 195 to 170.

Everything I've read stresses to lose the weight slowly (barring a medical condition that requires you to take the weight off quickly). The site I utilized to track my calorie count recommended no more than 2lbs a week - mostly because if you lose it too fast, as others have pointed out, your body goes into starvation mode and it becomes a lot harder all of a sudden to lose the last bit of fat.

Anyway, it was a good site. It takes your weight and tells you what your resting calorie intake is and tells you what you need to eat to lose X number of lbs per week. You can input any exercise you get, and in a way you can reward yourself with a bit more food if you get in the exercise.

I did find, however, that lifting weights doesn't burn NEARLY as many calories as cardio does. That's why when I went to the gym, I always did a cardio routine plus which ever muscle group I was working that day.

Cardio to lose weight and help the heart.
Weight lifting to gain muscle.

I love a good novel.

You can argue that lifting burns more calories until you're blue in the face. I look at a group of serious runners, and I look at group of gym rats. I see more beer bellies in the gym rats by far (and I'm talking about guys who lift seriously 5 days a week still being fat....strong, but fat). I personally have seen way more results from equal time spent doing cardio. I don't deny the benefits of strength training. And I don't deny that it has a fat burning side. But an hour running will burn more calories than an hour lifting. Mostly because you really aren't lifting but maybe half that time, but still time could be better spent if looking to purely lose weight.

Most runners I see are skinny fat. Sorry you don't get a good physique from running.

Most guys you see in the gym are concerned solely with getting bigger so they are not monitoring their diet. Besides your diet should be your focus in losing body fat not your workout.

Again, just arguing the other side, most runners don't care about body fat either. They are just looking to improve times. If they watch their diet, it's for health reasons, likely not body fat concerns. The weight still pours off if you aren't eating additional calories.

Only place I even think about weight is on my bike. I could pay 2 grand more for a bike that is 5 pounds lighter, or I could just work 5 lbs off. I don't intentionally concentrate on that, but it's a benefit. That 5 lbs gets me half a mph, or a few minutes in a long triathlon.