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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

How does eating foods with more fat help losing weight? What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fat can also trigger parts of your system to stop craving it, so you stop trying to aquire it by overeating. There are some science articles about it.

Staving off constant hunger can be as easy as cooking up a lentil (daal) soup that has some oil/butter in it. The lentils make you get a very full satisfied feeling in the bowel and the fats hit the part that wants fats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Carbs are processed first, so if you don't eat carbs, in theory your body will burn depot fat earlier.

You still need to eat less calories than you burn though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If It Fits Your Macros is king of all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Intermittent fasting is not a diet, but it can be combined with any diet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Wrong in so many ways.

Yes, diets primarily work by caloric deficit. But if you eat nothing but Snickers and maintain a calory deficit you're gonna have a bad time.

You should read up in low carb, something doctors have recommended for diabetic patients since the 1930's, because of how metabolism works (specifically glycemic response to specific macro nutrients).

This chart is meaningless.

If anyone wants a better layman's understanding, read "The Zone" by Barry Sears (a biochemist). Don't read any other books of his, just the first one from the early 90's.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Also intermittent fasting is not a diet and does not create a calorie deficit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The point of intermittent fasting is that during the fast your metabolism increases and your body enters partial ketosis which is beneficial for healing and general well being.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Quite a biased guide.
It imiplies that the objective of all diets is to lose weight. If that's the intent for the guide, then it should show all diets, and all of them would have to show that they do that by creating a caloric deficit

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Keto diets don't really create a caloric deficit. Instead, it fucks with your metabolism by inducing ketosis in conditions you normally wouldn't. Essentially, you're tricking your body into thinking you're starving, which means you start breaking down fats when you don't need to. I hear it's absolutely miserable and bad for you, too.

Intermittent fasting does something similar, if it's done correctly. Shit is wild.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The thing with keto is when overweight people start they are overeating, and so dropping carbs puts them into calorie deficit for sustaining the bodily functions. Then forcing the body to have no quick fuel availble starts ketosis.

But over eating on keto can keep you from losing weight. Look to the traditional diet Inuit First nation that survived in the tundra on meats and fats. They weren't in ketosis

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Metabolism can help or hinder weight loss depending on the diet.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

This is such a fucking stupid infographic, it's just straight up misinformation.

I have done keto, my partner was doing Calorie counting at the time and was curious and did the math for me. I was consuming about 150% of my normal pre-diet Calorie intake and losing 500g per day for a month. CICO is flatout not the mechanic used.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was consuming about 150% of my normal pre-diet Calorie intake and losing 500g per day for a month. CICO is flatout not the mechanic used.

You are stating that without knowing your calories out, and asserting that the laws of thermodynamics aren't real

Keto works due to two things: 1) proteins and fats are more filling than carbs, and 2) your basal metabolic rate increases when you are in ketosis

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People who say CICO doesn't work are asserting that, at no point did I assert that. I simply stated that CICO isn't the mechanism that keto uses.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

Hunger is the feeling of fat leaving the body.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Intermittent fasting is not just a calorie deficit, it reduces your exposure to insulin, which is an anabolic hormone.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago

While "true" at face value, it's important to note what kind of weight loss people are experiencing.

Many of those diets cause water and muscle loss, so while you're losing "weight", it's the wrong kind of weight to lose! LOL

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