Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

But you have a busy lifestyle. Your commuting must have some walking at either end and at changes, you run round after the little ones etc I read somewhere that doing some sort of exercise every hour for 2 minutes was as good as a proper workout - it kept your metabolism at a higher level throughout the day, so burned more calories.

The pedometer app says 1000 steps a day, once I arrive at work I make a couple of trips to the the kitchen and back (30 paces each way) in the 8 hours I am there.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I think dieting every day definitely results in lowered metabolism, based on the fact that I eat about a zillion calories a day, do no exercise and yet am not overweight on the BMI metric (although of course that is because I have no muscle tone at all which counterbalances the fatty deposits I carry) so basically my body must somehow be dealing with all those calories whereas PN and LIR seem to survice on about quarter as many.

I also question whether the extra longeveity these fasting diets bring is worth it - if you extend your life by 2/7ths but spend 2/7ths of every week feeling miserable, weak and hungry just what is the point?

I think in the animal studies the life extension's supposed to be pretty dramatic and it works in all animals tested. It would be unusual if it failed to have some effect on us.

I think they suspect the extra years gained through intermittent calorie restriction would potentially be longer than time spent fasting.

It would take decades to show up in human studies of course.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I think dieting every day definitely results in lowered metabolism, based on the fact that I eat about a zillion calories a day, do no exercise and yet am not overweight on the BMI metric (although of course that is because I have no muscle tone at all which counterbalances the fatty deposits I carry) so basically my body must somehow be dealing with all those calories whereas PN and LIR seem to survice on about quarter as many.

I also question whether the extra longeveity these fasting diets bring is worth it - if you extend your life by 2/7ths but spend 2/7ths of every week feeling miserable, weak and hungry just what is the point?

I make my students do the livingto100 lifespan calculator. At the end there's an inconspicuous feedback button which if you press it reveals a treasure trove of ways of adding extra years to your projected lifespan based on your lifestyle.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

The truth is that if most morbidly obese people could follow that advice they wouldn't be morbidly obese in the first place.

Overwhelmingly the evidence is that you can lose weight on any mainstream diet, but less than 5% of people can maintain the weight loss.

I'm overweight, got down to 8st3lb once ... now I don't worry and tend to wobble between 9st7 and 10st0. 10st0 means size 12 jeans feel a bit snug round the waistband; 9st7 means they come off without undoing them. The jeans test

I've no scales, probably get access to scales 2-3x a year.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm overweight, got down to 8st3lb once ... now I don't worry and tend to wobble between 9st7 and 10st0. 10st0 means size 12 jeans feel a bit snug round the waistband; 9st7 means they come off without undoing them. The jeans test

I've no scales, probably get access to scales 2-3x a year.

Sticking a mirror on your fridge door's supposed to be a good help for a diet!

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I make my students do the livingto100 lifespan calculator. At the end there's an inconspicuous feedback button which if you press it reveals a treasure trove of ways of adding extra years to your projected lifespan based on your lifestyle.

I've got another 20 years to go according to that.

If I do 12 more years of education I can add 1 more year to my lifespan.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Sticking a mirror on your fridge door's supposed to be a good help for a diet!

That probably only works if you can see the mirror. I've an under-the-counter level fridge

PasturesNew

What I love about all these obese people is that I used to be at the top end of "normal" for weight ..... I've done nothing different ... but many people got very fat. So I now look slimmer without any effort.

Bloomin' marvellous

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

What I love about all these obese people is that I used to be at the top end of "normal" for weight ..... I've done nothing different ... but many people got very fat. So I now look slimmer without any effort.

Bloomin' marvellous

Move to the US. You'll feel like a stick insect.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Move to the US. You'll feel like a stick insect.

Cardiff's closer.... and there I feel thin AND tall!