sb4
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@Runner5 Going slightly off topic but I don't think losing weight is about eating less and exercising more, nor do I put much stock into pudgy genes.
I was pudgy all through childhood. To cut a long story short I tried a whole bunch of things with moderate success (paleo, IF, calorie restriction) however was never 6 pack lean. I then decided the best way to get lean was to eat less exercise more right? Like all the nutritionists, dr's, fitness gurus say.
I did this and got 6 pack but felt absolutely awful. Hungry ALL THE TIME, cold all the time, ill all the time, weak. I will-powered through this for another month but then gave in and ate until satisfaction, gaining all the skinny fatness I had lost back.
About a month after this I started jack kruses leptin reset. The only things I changed was moving my eating window to start as soon as I got up, higher protein in morning meal, getting bright light in my eye when I woke, making my bedroom dark after sunset, and going to bed on time consistently. Notice non of this is excercise related and non of this is changing how much I was eating.
Fast forwards another month and I am back to 6 pack however this time I feel great, best I have felt my whole life. I actually had energy, my hands and feet where consistently warm for the first time in my life, my skin issues disappeared, my beard grew fully, I had comments from the ladies how I suddenly had gotten sexy
.
I realized that this is how a healthy human should feel all the time, and I have felt that way literally only for a couple of weeks in my entire life as unfortunately, I then got tonsilitus which lead to my CFS/POTS and it was all down hill from there.
Anyway, the point of this long winded post is that correcting my circadian rhythm and hormone signaling made me lose weight and gain health without trying. I think being fat is a position that your body does not want to be in, something is wrong in your enviroment causing you to be fat. It does not make sense to me that humans will get fat as f*ck given unlimited calories, it is not good for survival if a lion is chasing your group and your the fat one (tasties meal and slowest, win win for the lion).
It seems to me that exercise and eat less is doomed to failure in most cases and this seems to be born out by the real world results of people who try calorie counting etc. It appears most people respond to ketosis by dropping lots of fat quick. If the human body was greedy then why would this happen in ketosis, is instead ketosis correcting broken signalling pathways? Possibly.
I was pudgy all through childhood. To cut a long story short I tried a whole bunch of things with moderate success (paleo, IF, calorie restriction) however was never 6 pack lean. I then decided the best way to get lean was to eat less exercise more right? Like all the nutritionists, dr's, fitness gurus say.
I did this and got 6 pack but felt absolutely awful. Hungry ALL THE TIME, cold all the time, ill all the time, weak. I will-powered through this for another month but then gave in and ate until satisfaction, gaining all the skinny fatness I had lost back.
About a month after this I started jack kruses leptin reset. The only things I changed was moving my eating window to start as soon as I got up, higher protein in morning meal, getting bright light in my eye when I woke, making my bedroom dark after sunset, and going to bed on time consistently. Notice non of this is excercise related and non of this is changing how much I was eating.
Fast forwards another month and I am back to 6 pack however this time I feel great, best I have felt my whole life. I actually had energy, my hands and feet where consistently warm for the first time in my life, my skin issues disappeared, my beard grew fully, I had comments from the ladies how I suddenly had gotten sexy
.I realized that this is how a healthy human should feel all the time, and I have felt that way literally only for a couple of weeks in my entire life as unfortunately, I then got tonsilitus which lead to my CFS/POTS and it was all down hill from there.
Anyway, the point of this long winded post is that correcting my circadian rhythm and hormone signaling made me lose weight and gain health without trying. I think being fat is a position that your body does not want to be in, something is wrong in your enviroment causing you to be fat. It does not make sense to me that humans will get fat as f*ck given unlimited calories, it is not good for survival if a lion is chasing your group and your the fat one (tasties meal and slowest, win win for the lion).
It seems to me that exercise and eat less is doomed to failure in most cases and this seems to be born out by the real world results of people who try calorie counting etc. It appears most people respond to ketosis by dropping lots of fat quick. If the human body was greedy then why would this happen in ketosis, is instead ketosis correcting broken signalling pathways? Possibly.
