The World is Shit; It's Fucking Shit

[Josh]

"Mr. Cahill exercised seven hours a day, burning 8,000 to 9,000 calories according to a calorie tracker the show gave him."

thats another problem with that show

How is someone suppose to do that when they go home?

Exercise, or track the calories burned?

[Fe 26]

for 7 hours a day? That would require working out the moment you got off work with 1 hour to bath and get ready for bed

and no commute, or anything else

8 hours work, 8 hours sleep, 7 hours exercise, and 1 hour shitting and other random shit

[Dolemite]

Losing weight is (relatively) easy; keeping it off long-term is more or less impossible.

It's impossible to lose 239 pounds in seven months and keep it off. Losing weight that fast doesn't enable you to develop realistic diet and exercise habits that are sustainable for the rest of your life. If you're exercising 7 hours a day every day, you're doing it wrong.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Read the whole article. The issue is on a chemical level, seems to never go away even YEARS later, and these game show contestants are just a highly visible, dramatic example. All the research indicates the same problems apply to people who lose weight at a reasonable pace. Your body chemistry never accepts your desired weight as the new normal, but rather uses every dirty trick it can muster to get the pounds back. It'll hit you with cravings, suppress your satiation response, and if that doesn't work, it'll just slow your metabolism to a crawl so you have to literally starve yourself not just to lose weight, but to not gain it. It actually makes perfect sense as a survival mechanism for a hunter-gatherer species - pack on the pounds during times of feast so you can make it through times of famine (especially since nobody in those days would've had steady access to enough calories to become truly obese) - but it fucks us over in the modern world. In order to fix the obesity epidemic, science is basically going to have to find some way to "hack" our bodies into resetting their baseline weight, or else we revert to a society that doesn't give rise to obesity in the first place (i.e. harder access to food, mostly physical labor), and nobody wants that.

[Fe 26]

Yeah, josh and dole didn't read the article.

The key take aways us that diets change your calorie to weight gain ratio for the worse. And it stays that way for years. So all other things being equal, you have to eat 300 to 500 calories less to maintain the weight of someone 150 to 220 lbs.

And it changes your hormones so your hunger is deaper, all things being the same.

So you could diet your way skinny and then actually get fatter than when you started.

[Yoshi]

In order to fix the obesity epidemic, science is basically going to have to find some way to "hack" our bodies into resetting their baseline weight, or else we revert to a society that doesn't give rise to obesity in the first place (i.e. harder access to food, mostly physical labor), and nobody wants that.

I can't think of a better way to rebuild our infrastructure than a fatty work program. Hell, make an infomercial and charge them for the privilege.

[cigsthecat]

I read the article, it is pretty interesting. I wonder if the body fights to regain the weight less for smaller losses of weight spread out over longer periods of time.

Here's another article that pairs well with that one- http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well...ay-trump-diet/

[Doc Holliday]

The only one to blame here is Obama.

[Josh]

I read the article, cheeks. I just was trying to understand what you meant.

Why would he continue to exercise 7 hours a day after stopping the show anyway?

[Error]

So Fort MacMurray Alberta, a town deep in the heart of the Oilsands, is in the process of being consumed by a wild forest fire. An entire city of 80,000 people could be destroyed. Fortunately the place has been completely evacuated but it boggles the mind.

https://twitter.com/CBC/status/727920877732405248

https://twitter.com/WyldeOnHealth/st...45166652870656

https://twitter.com/WyldeOnHealth/st...45166652870656

It's Josh's fault apparently:

https://twitter.com/benisdennis/stat...75338559610880