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This is not true. In fact, you admit as much in the silence between this period and the next sentence, because presumably something happened during this silence.
This does not follow. There is a missing intermediate step.
Be charitable. You know what I meant. Appetite goes up, metabolic rate goes down, and then yes, people either eat more food and regain the weight, or their metabolism slows down so much that it doesn't make a difference how little they eat, they still regain the weight.
Simply white-knuckling your way to thinness doesn't work for 95% of people because the body fights back. People don't decide to get obese by choosing to eat more calories, telling them to simply choose to not be obese by eating less calories doesn't work. To recommend a strategy which will fail almost everyone who tries is cruel, particularly if it involves judging them for lack of willpower afterwards.
By contrast, ExFatLoss describes his weight loss through his version of keto as easy, compared to calorie controlled diets that he had tried before. Something else is clearly going on. Much better to try and work out what it is than just sneering at the fatties.
Yup. And where this plateau occurs controlling for height and sex is determined by genes. Some ppl have such crappy metabolism genes they are still fat cutting to 1500kcal/day and cannot lose more. many such cases. ironically, being a bigger glutton makes wight loss and leanness easier. A guy who maintains at 250 lbs eating 5kcal/day will find weight loss easier than the same guy at same height and weight who eats 3kcal/day.
Any specific examples?
https://x.com/Ed_Realist/status/1837975714622296202?
There is enormous individual variably of metabolism, about as much as IQ, controlling for height,.
There is some variety of metabolism: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32865, but not as much as random dudes that can't lose weight claim.
I wish the study used fat-free mass instead of total mass: fig.2 shows that RMR (measured in kcal/(kg*hr)) drops in overweight and obese individuals, but this is explained by the fact fat doesn't affect RMR much.
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Ah, so there is an intermediate bit that lives in the silence.
This is not true. We know, from science, how this works.
I didn't hear any claims from you about things being easy or not; that's pretty subjective and hard to measure with science. You made factual claims that are scientifically false.
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