Darth-P......
Dude....take a look next to you; we're sitting in the same boat!
It's kinda funny because it defies conventional theory. We're taught that it's calories in vs. calories out and so at the end of the week if we run a 3,500 calorie deficit we'll have lost a pound. We're also told that the body can slow the metabolism and run on lower-intake, BUT the reduction in metabolism can't cover the spread of the overall reduction/deficit in calories....so we should still have a net loss.....yet it just doesn't quite work that way.
Why can two nearly identical people (in age, gender, size, shape, genetic background, energy expenditure, etc) both consume 4,500 calories per day...and one gains weight/fat while the other just doesn't??
I'm told that every calorie counts, so if you eat an extra 100 calories per day, you WILL gain roughly a pound per month. Yet this is what I'm experiencing, I call it "Band-Width Theory"
To lose weight I need to eat less then 1,800 calories and then thinning will happen....but you gotta be hungry and run lean!!!
To gain weight, I need to eat more then 4,500 calories to get fatter. My waist & chin won't expand unless I eat more then this.
BUT....If I eat between 1,800 to 4,500 calories per day NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. In this "band" my body just seems to maintain itself at the set-point.
Does it make sense? By set-point theory, YES....but by "calories in vs. calories out"...not really. I think there's a lot of over-driven hype about metabolism and he we can change it and alter it. The notion that eating spicy food can super-charge our metabolism and increase it upto 40%?? NONSENSE! Caffiene speeds-up the metabolism?...probably a bit, but I'm guessing 85% of the effect is more appetite suppressant.
I'm not really sure...all I know is that I comparatively have to work my ass off something awful to make slight headway while others seem to have a relatively easier time.
I guess, in the end, we pick-apart and question the science in some kind of vague hope that we'll suddenly find the magic formula and discover the more productive route to getting where we're trying to go. I further suppose, in the end, we should just reconsile ourselves to doing the best we can and making the most of what we have...but I still like to b!tch and rage against the machine.
Btw....you know that concept about one day a week eat anything you want??? Yeah; don't even think about it....cause that's the one day your body will likely decide to reset it's set-point and Murphy's Law says we'll take one in the metabolic balls but good!
"Starve today, for tomorrow we weigh!" -BSL
Oh...and the chaos; it's been brought!!!
