The Scientific Way To Make Your Wife Fatter (1)
The most common, basic concepts we have of dieting center around calories.
We need a certain amount of calories to survive.
Eat more calories than that, and you get fat.
Eat less calories, and you lose weight.
The key assumption around this model is that the energy a body uses (the calories is needs and burns) always stays the same; it’s a flat line.
TOTAL ENERGY EXPENDITURE (TEE)
Studies show that when you reduce the amount of calories that go into a body, the body reduces the amount of calories it burns.
Think of it as money. When money is coming in by the bucket load, you’re likely to spend more. But when money gets tighter and tighter, you put a brake on the spending.
The more you restrict calories, the less calories your body burns. How much? 10%-20% weight loss makes a body burn 300-400 calories less per day.
At that rate, the average 500 calories-less-a-day diet doesn’t cut it anymore. The target reaches a weight and can’t get under it. The only option is to reduce calories even lower, which makes the total energy expenditure lower yet.
DIET REWARDS ON LESS CALORIES
At the beginning of the diet, cutting 500 calories is really 500 calories less.
A bit further into the diet, and the body starts to put the brakes on burning calories.
Now cutting 500 calories while the body burns 300-400 calories less is just cutting 100-200 calories.
At that point, any break in the diet is overconsumption. Reward yourself with half a bag of chips (500 calories), thinking you’ll flat line because you’re eating your base amount of calories, and suddenly you're overeating.
You start at the common 2000 calories needed/day - 500 calories = 1500 calories = weight loss diet.
As you lose weight, that 2000 calories needed per day goes lower and lower.
Now you’re looking at 1600 calories needed/day. You’re already on a diet (2000-500 = 1500). Your actual calorie deficit is just 100 calories.
If you eat just a little bit more, you’re still eating less than you used to but now you’re gaining weight because your body only burns 1600 calories a day.
Soon your weight goes up to its original point but you’re getting there at a lower TEE than before. You’re regaining your weight before your body returns to burning a normal amount of calories per day.
And that while you’re still hungry.
Once the body feels safe again, TEE goes to normal, but the damage is done: you dieted only to get back to the original weight faster.
By the time you reach the point where you’re eating the normal amount of calories again, you’re heavier than you were at the start.
The difference is that your new, higher weight is now the body’s new normal. Try to lose it by lowering calories, and the whole slow down process starts all over again.
Silly as it may sound, it works the other way around too.
The more calories are coming in, the more total energy expenditure goes up. A body that is 10% overweight burns more calories.
Same amount of calories, but less weight gain as the body is burning more of those calories.
It’s OK if your target goes on a diet; diets are weight-gain friends
Helping your target starve herself for a while will make her (re)gain weight faster, more efficient, and more permanent
If your target reaches a weight gain plateau, reduce calories for a while so the body starts to burn less calories; then bump her back up for a rapid (re)gain
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