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[MollyBloom]

My mom and all her friends talk day and night about this diet! Apparently you aren't supposed to put on the weight you lost, because the diet changes your metabolism...but I feel like that's unlikely, just because ALL diets say you keep off the weight...

[Rusty Shackleford]

The only diet you need to follow is one where you cut carbs and get a high proportion of your energy intake from meat/fat and non starchy vegetables. Carbs make you fat. Pretty much end of story.

[MollyBloom]

And exercise!!!! Even if you eat a lot, if you burn more than you consume...

[Rusty Shackleford]

Exercise certainly is good for your health. Unfortunately, there is very little evidence that it will help you lose weight!

[the ireland]

eat less & exercise more, it's hardly rocket science

[CentralCali]

It's a fad diet, like all other fad diets: worthless. Jay Leno hit the nail on the head when he said, "Americans will do anything to lose weight...except diet and exercise!" Fad diets aren't dieting, they're just fads. Dieting is managing your food intake correctly and sensibly. Consult a medical professional, not some fad food guru, before you begin a sensible diet and exercise regimen.

[Rusty Shackleford]

[the ireland]

Eat healthy and nutritious food where calories actually have some benefit to them. Avoid too many fast burning sugars etc etc.

Do whatever exercise you feel comfortable with, running, cycling swimming.

If you eat less calories than you burn your body will eventually start to use its stored fatty deposits and you will lose weight.

Going on diets for a month and losing 20 pound is all well and good but if you go back to your old diet and old routine you will put that weight back on quicker than you lost it.

Trust me, I was a fat teenager and now I'm neither fat nor a teenager.

[Crockpot2001]

[Crockpot2001]

[Ji]

I feel like people confuse weight loss with fat loss. One does not imply the other. The key is body recomposition not weight loss.

All diets follow the rule of thermodynamics. You consume less then you burn, hence your body is required to make up the difference. A lot of mainstream diets simply remove the calorie counting portion but by the nature of the diet and what you can/cannot eat create caloric deficit even without conscious calorie counting.

Most trend diets also tend to include hydration weight in their weight loss. I can easily get someone to shift 10-15lbs of liquid in a few days. But that does not change body composition.

Exercise creates maybe 10-30% of total daily caloric expenditure depending on level of exertion/time. Most people spend far less time in intense activity then they believe. Excluding warm up, cool down, breaks, and low intensity, a 90 minute workout normally becomes something like 30 minutes of actual hard activity.

What certain exercise can do is minimize lean tissue loss and increase the % of fat burned for fuel.

But as I've learned from years of experimentation, training, and learning is that if you want to get a lean toned body it takes a lot of sacrifice and consistency in training/eating. It's no longer a "diet" it's a new lifestyle.

[.38 Special]

I'm neither an expert on nutrition, biology, or fitness...

But the beginning and the end of the argument in managing calories is knowing and adhering to how your body uses them. If your body is not using enough calories, and therefore turning calories to fat, then you need to either:

1) Consume fewer calories. This becomes problematic, however, when we consider that the vitamins and minerals we need to take in come with calories. Also, it is healthy from an evolutionary standpoint to put on fat.

2) Utilize greater calories. This means building muscles so your body is burning calories during your ordinary routine. Cardio will only burn higher amounts of calories for a short period of time each day. Putting on muscle will burn more calories in maintaining that muscle. Also, cellular respiration during weight training, in my experience, burns much more calories than cardio.

Eat better. Exercise. Build lean muscle. Maintain this life style.

...... And ignore the mercenary scientists that push new diets/clubs/equipments. You won't get a more expert opinion than common sense.

[Crockpot2001]