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In order to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight, you need to understand the reasons people are overweight:
- the incentives they feel for maintaining a healthy weight (younger & dating-->more careful about what you're eating)
- the food they're eating
- the food choices of the people around them
- the amount of sleep they're getting (less sleep-->more stress / cortisol-->more eating)
- the amount of physical activity they do in a day (office job-->less physical activity)
also, talking about "going on a diet" is absurd if your goal is to keep the weight off. In order to maintain a healthy weight you need to permanently change the foods you are eating.
Here's an interesting experience I had:
One time I was in a super-market and on a whim bought a package of Oreos and three pints of Haagen-Dazs. I ate all that stuff over the course of two days. Before I bought the Oreos/ice-cream I was very, very good at telling what my body wanted when I felt a particular craving. But in the days after I ate the cookies/ice-cream, my ability to detect what my body needed was a little messed up: for example, I would go a few hours without drinking water, and my body would need water and start to go "HEY WE NEED SOMETHING", but I would find myself craving ice cream instead. I think the problem is that our brains have a limited number of ways to go "Ahhhh that's good" or "Hey! Do something!", so when we get a feeling that says "Hey! Do something!" we have this tendency to think of whatever made us feel good in the past. Or something like that.
Intermittent Fasting
- 2016.10.12 - Primal Edge Health - What I've learned from 4 Years of INTERMITTENT FASTING - the good and the bad!
- 2016.11.14 - YouTube - Scooby - The Truth About Intermittent Fasting
- This is primarily a criticism of the Kinobody paid program.
- Your body needs protein to gain muscle. If you're trying to gain muscle, it doesn't make sense to withhold protein from your body for 16 hours a day.
- He says that IM can work for fat loss by helping with hunger management, but that you need to be careful that you don't develop an eating disorder.
- 2017.02.17 - Brandon Carter - Why I QUIT INTERMITTENT FASTING
- Summary: He found he could put on muscle faster if he didn't do IF, but that it was harder for him to stay lean.
- He said he'll also switch up his diet depending on his situation. For example, when he went to another city and didn't have as much control over his diet, he switched from his normal diet to IF to accommodate that lack of control.
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/17/health/wiredwell-food-diary-super-tracker.html
- 2015.01.15 - NYT - A 12-Hour Window for a Healthy Weight
- Very interesting. This reminds me of that guy who has that system that he sells. Someone I read about online said that it really works, but he ended up feeling depressed when his body fat percentage got too low.