Metabolic Confusion Principal

According to the National Institutes for Health, Reducing Calorie Intake May Not Help You Lose Body Weight
In the short term a reduction in energy intake is counteracted by mechanisms that reduce metabolic rate and increase calorie intake, ensuring the regaining of lost weight. For example, even a year after dieting, hormonal mechanisms that stimulate appetite are raised…
there is a need to understand the control of energy balance and how to prevent the regaining of weight after it has been lost. By itself, decreasing calorie intake will have a limited short-term influence.

Body loses muscle not fat

Weight cycling, or more colloquially yo-yo dieting, refers to a cycle of weight loss followed by regaining the lost weight, followed by again dieting, and so on. The Summermatter Cycle describes how, initially during dieting, the energy expenditure of muscle reduces. Thus when more food becomes available, the more thrifty body favors the depositing of fat (Summermatter & Handschin, 2012). Such a mechanism illustrates that directing attention to the reduction of food intake, without realizing that it is the maintenance of weight loss that is important, is unlikely to be successful. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22290535/). The dangers of your Brain Set Point and why it makes it next to impossible to lose weight When Food intake is often greatly in excess of expenditure, over months a new and higher “settled point” is created. Why then
should a small difference in calorie consumption greatly influence body weight?
The settled point is defended, such that any decrease in energy intake will stimulate compensatory mechanisms. In those who are obese, calorie intake will reduce weight only if an energy deficit can be achieved. (Drenowatz, 2015; Greenway, 2015; Poppitt & Prentice, 1996; Rosenbaum & Leibel, 2010).

There are reports that appetite, the control of body weight, and energy compensation are influenced by the macronutrient composition of meals (amount of fat, carbohydrate, and protein). When in the short term the energy content of the diet is reduced, if some of the available foods are energy dense, that is they provide more calories per gram of food, then the lost energy tends to be replaced. In fact, after reducing calorie intake, only when the diet was uniformly of a low-energy density was energy compensation not observed (Poppitt & Prentice, 1996). As we tend to eat a similar volume of food, the same volume of low density foods provides fewer calories. Thus a low-energy diet has two advantages: It decreases energy intake but also helps to maintain any weight loss. Low-energy dense foods tend to have a high level of water and a low fat content; fruit and vegetables are good examples.

Lesley Stahl reports on how obesity is misunderstood, and the struggle to get new weight loss drugs to people who need them. #60Minutes #News #WeightLoss "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.

Lesley Stahl on 60 minutes “Dr Fatimia Cody Stanford, An Obesity Doctor at Mass General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School Common Beliefs about Obesity are all wrong” and Calls it a brain disease and Diet Shows like the Biggest Loser are snookering people 96% of those participants in the Biggest loser regained their weight… Their brain worked well bec they basically told their bodies to store the calories they thought the body needed after such drastic losses Throw will power out the window- example of a woman 39 who struggles with extreme obesity…she is working out 5-6 times per week consistently…and eating very little- her brain is defending a certain set point ( a range of weight your brain is in charge of maintaining by controlling how much food you eat and how much you store It is an evolutionary survival system that helps to retain fat during famine During covid people gained weight and established a higher set point- when you have a chronic stressor and you get to a certain weight and you maintain that weight for 3-6 months, then you recalibrate that set point to a different set point.

What about the fast food, cokes and that kind of thing? That is only 1 factor. But the number 1 cause of obesity is genetics. You have a 50-85% likelihood of having the obesity disease as well if your parents have it- even if you have an optimal diet and exercise, sleep and stress management.

79-90% of Physicians have a significant bias to individuals who are heavier- the patient goes to the doctor and the doctor asks him if he is eating well, exercising, sleeping well- if they say YES, the doctor usually says Are You Sure? They don’t really believe
that is what you are doing…Doctors do not understand Obesity Most medical schools do not teach that Obesity is a disease and do not offer courses on it…even though it is the 2nd leading cause of preventable death in the country after smoking.