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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I have dropped about as much weight as Weed and RT over about the same period of time. I've been running a lot for the last year, and really enjoy it, and wouldn't give it up. But I really think the key to losing weight is changing one's diet, and to my mind that means changing one's habits permanently, not trying a special diet for a short period of time to get some results that will go away when one reverts to form. YMMV. This stuff is hard, and what works for one person may not for another. On the exercise vs. diet point, I would just say that it's really hard to burn enough calories to lose much weight and not also compensate by eating more.
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Sometimes it feels like you want a debate where none exists.
Yes. Diet is key. It's the most important. I'd say 80-90% of any successful weight loss can be attributed to diet.
And just because diet is the most important doesn't mean that exercise is not important. And I added that people tend to think that it's all about building calories when, in fact, strength training is equally or even more important.
Yes. Fad diets (and diets in general) don't last. That's why they're called fads. However, for many people, getting down to a weight at which they can exercise regularly without giving up and reaching a weight at which they can change their diet permanently to something reasonable in order to maintain that weight or something close to it is a real goal.
For me (at least at this age), dropping 10 pounds quick takes a shock to my system because I am not an out-of-control eater and my body has moved into a place where 205 is where it wants to be. But once it's off, it takes real sloth to put it back on given the amount of exercise I get.
I posted about the keto thing because how your body works is very interesting to me--and the fact that a high fat diet can lead to dramatic weight loss is so counterintuitive to everything we've been taught about nutrition that I thought it might be interesting to others as well. The fact that I know a number of people who have used it to drop tons of weight very fast and maintain it once they get used to a very reduced-carb diet seems like information people may want to hear. I did.
The idea that your body burns carbs for energy first while storing fatty foods can be changed such that your body burns fat first and then is tricked into
constantly burning fat (from intake and your fat stores) amazes me. Hell, once you've plateaued, you can then carb load and re-trick your body into doing it again to overcome that plateau. That's amazing.
I'm not trying to get you to do it. I'm not saying what works for you is wrong. I am just having a discussion about a topic that interests me.
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