I've been avoiding this conversation. I've had arguments with friends over this. However, I decided to give my two kilojoules since, while its OT, its very relevant to IT types that generally tend to have a sedentary life style.
There is a fundamental law of physics at work here: Conservation of energy. The change in energy in a system (fat, glucose, protein, etc) is energy in (kilojoules absorbed from food) minus energy out (moving, thinking, living). It doesn't matter what your body does or what form the energy is in. If you use more energy than you absorb, you will lose weight. I've counted kilojoules, tracked exercise and monitored weight. Doing this, I was able to lose weight quite successfully and with little difficulty. People mention hormones and starvation mode, etc. This doesn't somehow override conservation of energy. It just means you have to continually monitor how your weight is changing based on the kilojoules in/out. As your body becomes more efficient at absorbing energy and more efficient at living, you will need to decrease the kilojoules in to compensate. My anecdotal example: I would set a target average daily kilojoule intake (averaged over each week) and monitor my weight. When it stopped going down, I decrease my target daily average until I started losing weight again. When I started, my daily target was around 8000 kJ (before that I was eating closer to 10000 kJ). By the time I got to my target weight, I had decreased it to 6000 kJ. I was less hungry, had more energy, ate healthier and spent less money on food. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On 20 June 2017 at 14:32, Bec C <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd have to respectfully disagree. Tried it and lost weight. > > > On Tuesday, 20 June 2017, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nope. >> >> If you cut calories and have any carbs in your system then you will have >> insulin in your system and your body will be in storing mode. Impossible to >> lose ANY weight if you are only storing. >> >> To bring it back on topic for the list it would be like being only able >> to append records to a database table and not be able to delete. If you can >> never delete then its impossible to make the table smaller. >> >> Insulin = store only. >> >> It's hormonal not caloric. You would put weight on if your lower calories >> were high carb/sugars. Try it. >> >> >>
