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by Pzychotix
4990 days ago
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>I failed to lose weight on a ~1200 kcal/day diet for several years of relatively active lifestyle. Does that seem impossible to you as well? Yeah, I would think that's impossible. I'm going to just state user error as the leading cause here for your inability to lose weight. Unless you're completely unique in some shape or form such that reducing your caloric intake also reduced your BMR down to basically 0 (i.e. dead), I'm going to have to call bullshit. |
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My ex was an MD. At some point she told me "well, I'm going to eat what you eat for a few weeks to show you that you must be eating more than you think" (She was studying for exams, and we actually ate almost every meal together for a few months). She started having blackouts after a few days, continuously feeling starved, and stopped the experiment after less than two weeks.
What did she do afterwards? put a big SEP field over the experiment (and my food input). What did other nutritionists and doctors I consulted say? One called me a lier (about a few things; all of which -- except my food intake -- I was able to prove him wrong). Another said I should start eating meat (I'm vegetarian) - not because I'm missing anything, but because he couldn't find enough relevant statistics to compare me to.
My BMR _was_ reduced, but I didn't have enough money at the time to spend on getting it tested. But my body temperature in those years was ranging between 35.2 and 36.2 celsius (normal is 36.7) -- obviously I generated much less heat.
Just about _everything_ you know about medicine and nutrition is statistics that works for 90% of the population 99% of the time. I'm (un?)lucky to be stuck in the 1% of the time and 10% of the population in many respects.
I'm not sure if I should be annoyed or amused of how religiously people tend to assume nutrition and medicine are hard sciences like math and physics. (See my long reply to jacques_chester above for deconstructing his popular argument)