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Our good friend Marlene (not her real name), recently announced that she and all the other women in her office have committed to lose ten pounds by March, aiming to shed a pound a week. This is not the first time she's made such a pact but one of many, and each time that unwanted ten pounds has briefly departed but then boomeranged back usually bringing one or two extra pounds along with it. Read More
"Set point"?
It doesn't sound like much of a "set point" if it can be so easily moved by dieting or certain foods.
In fact, the idea of a "set point" doesn't seem to make much sense in the face of skyrocketing weights in the past several decades. If our weight were genetically determined, we would not have become so overweight/obese in under fifty years.
It is interesting (and frightening) to read that dieting creates such a hormonal boomerang effect, but then really, what is needed is positive advice, rather than negative.
Avoid dieting, OK.
But how does one behave (what foods to eat, etc.) in order to maintain or attain a slim figure?
The answer to the current massive number of overweight people cannot be simply to "normalize" the problem. If no one got dental care and we all and missing or rotten teeth, the answer wouldn't be to say: Toothless is pretty!
Where is the advice about
Where is the advice about making exercise part of your life and slowly losing weight by making managable changes in diet over time?
Weight on, weight off
I would have thought that if the weight went on slowly, then the weight can come off just as slowly. Sure, it might take a couple of years rather than a couple of months to lose those 10 pounds but isn't the main goal to keep the weight off once you've lost it? And it will be a lot easier to do that by making small incremental changes in one's diet rather than a sudden 25% reduction in calories.
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