Low Carb: Reduce carbohydrate intake as many feel carbs = fat. Not necessarily true, but aim it get energy from protein and fat, over carbs. Unfortunately, you need carbs, so reducing them too much leaves a person flat and feeling empty. With that said, the idea is that carbs are inherently bad, so avoid them.
Ketogenic: Works by kicking your metabolism into “starvation mode” where it will start cannibalising the fat stored on your body vs the energy from the food you eat.
Low Fat: Many believe fat you eat is basically slapped onto your body, so they avoid eating it. This has been debunked decades ago. There’s also good fats vs bad fats (trans fats).
IF: Employs the growing theory that eating within a window (usually 8-10 hours, so not a “few hours”) is ideal for both weight management, but also general health (some argue there are lots of systemic downsides to eating outside this window, like cancer and other long term ailments). Dr. Ronda Patrick is a huge proponent and has some amazing scientific research on the topic: https://www.foundmyfitness.com. Sadly the internet has left out those bits and treats it essentially as a way to generally eat less.
Weight Watchers: Calories counting at its finest, which has very poor efficacy btw. But the only one that doesn’t so much as control what you eat (their meals are shit), but more of how much. None of the other diets aim is to control the amount of food ingested.
Paleo: The idea that modern food is essentially shit. So one goes back to the basics and tries to eat as “primal” as possible. Basically food that is slaughtered and grown goes on your plate. No yogurt, no milk, no cereal, no processing of any kind. You live off nuts and potatoes and meat. Depending on
Keto for weightloss is a meme. It is supposed to help reduce seizures epileptic children not help adults loose weight.
Weight Watchers is subscription based weight loss, the primary goal is to keep the dieter feeling like it will take just one more month to reach that goal, but they never will ;)
Paleo is just a huge joke, in span of the Paleolithic era humans went from being field apes to full on farmers. So a true paleo diet could include anything from raw rabbit to a burger on baked bread.
Ha, this is awesome.
I’ve been on intermittent fasting (16:8) for close to 3 months now and have lost almost 10 lbs. It’s the option that worked best for me because I don’t have to worry about eating something I shouldn’t (i.e. keto or low carb), and I just need to make sure I don’t eat anything outside the 8 hour window. It’s the easiest way because you don’t need to think about portions, ingredients, or counting calories.
Same here, I struggle with keeping portion sizes small, but I have no problem skipping breakfast.
I’ve been losing weight steadily, while still being able to go full pig mode some times. Finding some kind of sport also helps, I got really into cycling after trying a lot of different stuff.
Your diet should really be focused on long term health and not rapid weight loss.
This is false. Keto isn’t about a caloric deficit, it’s about exploiting a loophole in the Krebs cycle by tricking your body into a starvation state.
No it’s not, it’s about eating things that more easily signal to your body that you are full and learning to hear that signal, and in turn eating at a calorie deficit.
No. Its about creating ketones out of fat cells that your body uses as a subsitute for carbs. Nothing to do with caloric deficit.
Why would the body be looking for carb substitutes?
Energy. Some organs can only work function by way of carbs, such as glucose. Like the brain.
So… Calorie deficit
If your aim is to trim fat from your brain, yes.
Brain works fine on ketones.
Edit: Look it up yourselves if you’re doubting.
LOL. This couldn’t be further from what a Keto diet is trying to do. Quindraco nailed it. The Keto diet is meant kick your body into cannabilising its own fat stores for energy rather than use the energy from the food you’re eating.
If you want to see it in action, watch the series The Human Body EP 1. They chronicle someone who swam the English Channel. It took 14h and he lost about 20 lbs. doing it. The show speaks about the process, but basically, that is Keto.
Yes, yes. We know what the keto diet is pretending to do, but that’s all it’s doing: Pretending.
If this was true, your body temperature would just sky rocket.
People on keto diets have greater measured energy expenditure at rest, so yes, they are producing more waste heat
Which is bullshit because they are not running a fever, which would be extremely unhealthy anyway.
Did you know when your body gets too hot you thermoregulate to bring it back down to a normal temperature? It’s what separates us from reptiles.
A fever is when your immune system tells your body NOT to do that so you can better kill off pathogens. Besides, the 50-150 cal burned by ketosis would raise your body temperature by an absolutely negligible amount, drinking a cup of tea would have a more noticeable impact on skin temp
What separates us from the reptiles is that we can get our body temperature UP by burning calories. If you run hot, you can only passively cool down by sweating lots or walking around naked, I guess. If you aren’t sweating lots, you aren’t losing significant excess heat. But the actual point of the OP is that many people who are even only 40 lb overweight already eat in excess of 150 kcal, never mind 50. If this is how ketosis works, they wouldn’t run super hot, but they would also never get to a normal weight. Also, you can achieve the same effect by exercising or even just drinking cold water. Think about how many people got thin by doing this.
BTW, when you drink tea etc, your body reduces heat production to compensate.
Correct. The Keto Diet is extremely unhealthy.
I mean it’s a mechanical process that if left too long, will even strip the essential fats off your internal organs, so yeah, it’s not for Suzy who like knows nothing about like exercise but wants to look wicked skinny for TikTok, yo!
Keto was developed in the 1920s and is about controlling seizures in drug resistant epileptic children.
