littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I like that idea. Clear your mind and fucking do something, fuckhead, you're dying here! It chimes with experience. Needing to act now is very good for mental clarity.
Calorie Deficiency
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8ball
World is a fuck
You might expect it would fade after a couple of goes tbf.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Y'see, this is why we all need to do maths till 18. Rishi Sunak's right.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
This is the correct answer.Just eat it all on the way home and don't tell the family.
8ball
World is a fuck
I think it would be great if maths was really taught properly til that age. There are so many weird, anomalous and surprising truths hidden away in there that most people are put off from pursuing based on the way it is taught.
That’s not what Sunak is aiming for, obv.
AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Those links were really useful, thank you very much.Maybe he's not in a calorie deficit for his activity level/body composition etc?
Playing with a calculator might help you see how this works.
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I've just embarked on a health kick and downloaded an NHS weight loss app, which was telling me to eat a minimum of 1,600ish calories a day and that 2,000 should be the regular daily amount. I thought that sounded a bit high. So I checked. When I ran those calculations, it suggested I needed to be eating 1028 calories if I have a sedentary lifestyle and 1234 if I have a moderately active lifestyle. I'm sedentary but starting to become more active. (Vigorously active and 1509 calories a day isn't going to happen.)
I had actually though 1,600 sounded too high and have been eating 1,000-1,300, which is doable. (No booze or crisps etc.)
It's a bit of a faff keeping track of it all though, but it will hopefully be worth it.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Oddly that says I should eat just shy of 2,000kcal per day to maintain my weight, but I eat about 2,400 and my weight stays the same. My mam always said I had hollow legs so maybe my metablism just burns more calories than the average.TDEE Calculator: Learn Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure
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8ball
World is a fuck
Oddly that says I should eat just shy of 2,000kcal per day to maintain my weight, but I eat about 2,400 and my weight stays the same. My mam always said I had hollow legs so maybe my metablism just burns more calories than the average.
If you’re happy with your weight and that’s how much you’re happy with eating, then all I can say is keep it up.
When I was in shape and hitting the weights a fair bit I stayed level on 3,000 cals a day. When I was taking mirtazepine* I could gain pounds fast on anything more than 1,600 (with the same
gym regimen). There’s lots of variables involved.
Despite what the thermodynamic fundamentalists say, there’s in my opinion a big effect from what you are eating too. That microbiome is a mysterious beast.
* - anti-depressant, but also a first line treatment for anorexia
Cid
Proper break this time
That kind of thermodynamic fundamentalism doesn't really represent a scientific position though. Admittedly it reflects the opinion of many people; food labelling designers, health ministers, even GPs, practice nurses etc... But your average endocrinologist isn't going around saying 'oh yeah, we absorb calories from fat, protein and carbs from every food source in exactly the same way, and it's exactly the same in everyone'.
Idaho
continuity character
Or it could be that having consistently high blood sugar and be constantly digesting food causes brain fog, and that having a break from all that and getting a bit hungry is part of our adaptation.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
From a bit of reading round, the problem at root is that we don't know enough. We know that brains need some glucose, and also that the liver can make this if necessary. Problem is that there are so many people pushing a particular agenda. This site is pretty typical. There is some decent info in there, but it ends on a confident note despite not having demonstrated what it claims:
Nothing in what it outlines before this conclusion warrants this level of confidence. 'all the glucose it needs' is a big claim that needs justification. From what I can tell, solid research on this doesn't actually exist. 'You won't die cos your body can make glucose' isn't the same as 'don't worry, your brain will cope just fine'.
ETA: I'm not necessarily knocking it as a way to lose weight and potentially counter type 2 diabetes, but many advocates of keto go a lot further than this and push it as a better way of being, even, as in the above link, dragging in spurious evolutionary stories from 'when we were hunter-gatherers' to back them up. It's true that our evolutionary legacy has left us with flexible dietary requirements - humans can do well on a huge variety of diets, and that's been key to our success in colonising the planet - but this kind of evolutionary just-so story is very wide of the mark. This survival mechanism evolved long before humans appeared, as shown by the animal studies on keto and epilepsy, eg: Animal models of the ketogenic diet: what have we learned, what can we learn? - PubMed
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Idaho
continuity character
The internet seems to favour extreme views. People make arbitrary choices (or sometimes they accidentally make reasonable ones) and then the echo chamber/rabbit hole takes over. Then money making sites step in to provide validation and certainty for whatever choices are made.
