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Herself had her annual health checkup today, and ... she's to heavy: her BMI is 39. 
So ... she's on a diet.
Which means I'm on a diet as well, despite a BMI of 23.
Deep joy. I may have to cheat and secretly binge on chocolate just to prevent me needing new clothes 
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I wouldn't change my diet with a BMI of 23 - no way.
I would just be supportive of her diet journey as I am sure you already are.
May the force be with her. 
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Yeah, but it's not fair to be eating Tempura chicken and fries with a Scotch Bonnet dipping sauce while she is chewing her way through through a stick of celery ...
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"No, honey, this is for the cat."
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I feel her pain, I'm dieting and exercising a lot and managed to get from a BMI of 33 to 31 in three months, including a long month without exercise due to bronchitis and a surgery.
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That's good going! 
I went from 24 to 21 in three weeks - but I wouldn't recommend it: I caught Covid. 
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Damn that's a massive weight loss in three weeks.
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Effective, but not recommended!
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I will buy your BMI. Will pay any sum. Just name your price! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So, true. I think most of us would start robbing banks to buy that BMI, I know I would.
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I wouldn't... BMI is an average that doesn't account for above average muscle mass at all. Body fat percentage is a much better metric to judge against if you want to get fit. It just takes a teeny bit more work to figure out so people never do it.
If you don't want to be fit and just skinny, then by all means use BMI.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm not physically fit and I don't have above average muscle mass.
BMI is just fine for me.
Let's keep it real.
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Slacker007 wrote: Let's keep it real.
I am keeping it real. Don't be one of those types on CP that gets all sensitive any time someone presents new info. We're supposed to be adults, even though everyone knows programmers are some of the most immature folks around.
BMI sucks. Just spend 5 mins Googling it to see what I mean.
Jeremy Falcon
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Cp-Coder wrote: I will buy your BMI. Will pay any sum. Just name your price!
I remember once, in the gym, many years ago... a heavyset fellow watched me lose a lot of weight. He literally came to me with a heartfelt plea about helping him lose weight and asked me how I did it. I told him the truth, "change your diet and exercise." At that moment he snapped out of his trance and immediately said "oh, I can't do that" and walked away.
The point is, everyone knows how to lose weight. Nobody wants to change their lifestyle however. It's not rocket science.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 1hr 10mins ago.
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For a summer job during my college years (late 70's) I worked in a drug store warehouse - on my feet bopping around all day. I would eat 4 to 6 sandwiches during the 1/2 hour lunch. No matter what I ate I stayed under 170 pounds -- I'm 6' 4". (The ladies who worked there would just give me the death stare as I ate as fast as I could before the bell rang.)
Those days are long long gone - now if I ate like that I would be mistaken for an inflatable beach ball and I've been struggling for a few years to keep my weight under 200. This year's Christmas cookies and eggnog did NOT help. Celery and carrots are a lousy substitute for real food.
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just eat more salad.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Steak salad... taco salad...
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Having been fat more than once my life... everyone knows how to lose weight. Being overweight is an emotional issue mixed with just years of bad habits. You change your habits, your emotions will change, your body will change.
I can tell you from experience that her chance of success in pulling it off will greatly increase if you do it as a team. Granted, you don't need to lose weight, but if you're sneaking in donuts it's just going to make her life and cravings harder.
Absolute worst thing is for her to feel alone in this change.
Jeremy Falcon
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Not sure if the doctor gave y'all a plan, but it's worth mentioning that the honest MDs will tell you they're not nutritionists. And if you speak to a nutritionist, the honest ones will tell you they're not athletes (well some sure, but you get the idea). That is to say, you may or may not be getting the full picture from a single visit to just one person.
Not sure if you know all this stuff, if so... oops... then it'll be for someone else... but remember calories is a concept of the mind to approximate. They mean a lot less than you think. Your body's information system is chemicals and hormones. Calories is something we cooked up to sound smart. Don't take my word for it... according to traditional "science" it's about 3k calories per pound. So if you at 100 less caries per day and did nothing else... you'd think in 30 days you'd lose a pound. Nope. Never works that way. Ask anyone on a failed diet (ignoring water weight, etc. issues for the sake of simplicity here).
In short. it's hormones. Period. When you eat is just as important as how much you eat and what you eat. And the number one hormone being out of whack to cause weight gain is insulin. There are others like cortisol, but bare with me.
What is all this getting to? In short, calorie restriction can work but it's a mind-made concept that's an approximation of something you body has no concept of. It's just to make us feel good by pretending we understand something about the body we don't.
Focus on your meal timing and what's in the food first and foremost. Also, trigger new hormones with exercise. Yes, portion sizes too, but you can eat 20 bowls of cucumbers 5 chicken breasts a day and still lose weight - hormones.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 49 mins ago.
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Nuts and seeds get me through the day when there's nothing else. Protein shakes; there's now a vegan one that taste like vanilla (not bad).
Starvation diet: 800 calories per day (lying motionless).
1600 calories: "average"; 100-200 per hour.
Anything over that, you gain weight unless you up the activity level.
("Grazing" is the key; no "3 squares per day". And no carbs after 6:00 PM, when the metabolism slows down. And "breakfast is the most important meal of the day": (low fat) cottage cheese is the "perfect" food).
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modified 58 mins ago.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Starvation diet: 800 calories per day (lying motionless).
Not everybody is starting from the same place or have the same lifestyle or the same body (height, etc.). A 500 pound man could eat 0 calories per day and not starve. He may feel hungry and should take some vitamins and electrolytes at the very least, but he'll not starve. The whole point of fat is stored fuel for times of famine. We all know this, but somehow we don't think about this.
Starvation being defined here as going catabolic and your body starts eating itself to stay alive. A dude with 0% body fat will starve much, much, much quicker than dude with 50% body fat.
Jeremy Falcon
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Also, and this is going to sound crazy, but it works. A lot of times fasting can be easier than a normal diet. Sometimes it's easier to turn the switch off, so to speak, than to change everything you put in your mouth all at once. I mean you should, but doing it all at once is a recipe for rebounds if you're addicted to garbage food.
No matter what hunger pangs someone may feel, if they are overweight, their body will survive when eating every other day for instance. That's the whole point of body fat... stored fuel... you just need to force your body to tap into it. And if your meal isn't perfect on your "on" day, at least you have a hormonal day off for your body to work with. Just make sure on your "off" day you drink nothing but water or black coffee etc.
Just another tool in the toolbox. It may not be for everyone. But it's an option.
Jeremy Falcon
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She is right: with your BMI, a marathon would be hard. 
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-- Rigoletto
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