@suzzer99 I caught some random podcast earlier today where host who was addicted to food said the same thing you said about diets, which is he’d get really angry, like he was detoxing, and eventually blow up. Claimed he’d get so worked up that he’d drive to Taco Bell at night for a 4,500 calorie bender.
Hooooly shit, Lyle really went off the deep end. Not shocked.
Oh well, some of his earlier work is still solid, but damn, way to taint it…
Another reason I really like The Drive podcast is he has a lot of scientists on who aren’t afraid to question conventional academic wisdom on all kinds of subjects. But it’s all based on real science, not bro science or junk science – which seems to be a very tough needle to thread these days.
He’s had a few guests talk about obesity:
Bottom line from both of these (I believe, it’s been a while since I listened to them - there might be others) is that the human body has a lot of regulatory systems to slow down or reverse weight loss, and there’s a ton of evidence that there are physiological differences between people who were fat and lose weight, vs. people who never gained the weight in the first place.
IIRC the primary methods the body uses to gain weight back or avoid losing weight are:
Hearing this stuff has really helped improve my mental outlook on losing weight. You might think it would de-motivate me to know my body (to some degree) really doesn’t want to lose weight. But it’s the opposite. It helps to hear that I’m not crazy.
Some people who’ve been fat in the past say it’s basically impossible to lose weight. That’s not me, but I’m probably on that spectrum somewhere. It helps to know I may need to look to other methods like intermittent fasting vs straight CICO, that might trick my body from going into full weight-loss defense mode.
As far as the grumpiness - that’s a whole other issue. It ranges from basic grumpiness, to some kind of legit temporary mental illness where I literally can’t stop my brain from going crazy thinking about any conflict in my life, no matter how inconsequential in the long run. I call it the hamster wheel – it has a spectrum of severity.
You’ll know the hamster wheel is going strong when I just start arguing with people out of the blue on here, and take things to DEFCON 1 immediately for no reason. Sometimes I take it out online on purpose to avoid doing the same to coworkers.
But if I assume the hamster wheel is a symptom of my body shutting things down wrt to weight loss, then I can change things up when it comes, maybe have a cheat day or something. I don’t ever lose my mind and go to Taco Bell. But I do struggle when I’ve been dieting and I go to a party where there’s food to graze on. I do fine until I get semi-drunk, then my body does seems to go into “eat everything now mode”.
First two for sure, third one I’ve seen some work on but don’t know if there’s anything definitive, but it seems like your understanding of the current direction and thinking in obesity research is accurate.
The leading experts I’m familiar with (research physicians) would absolutely not put you on CICO for the reason you’ve stated. The current gen drugs are really promising, so hopefully they keep getting better.
I think you should go hiking for a month in Nepal and see if that works!
First day of the year the gym is open and boy. It’s full.
Some serious bro energy around the bench today.
Thought about getting a 24 hour fitness membership on Black Friday, it was $400 for 2 years paid up front, but decided I’ll just wait till January 1st it will be on sale then. Today comes and I look and it’s not on sale and I’m like oh right ya cause everyone is ok with buying a gym membership at full price right now, why would they discount it, duh.
Anyone have experience with a dietitian or nutritionist?
Mrs Rugby and I considering going to one together.
Our diet as a couple is pretty bad. Seems collectively we need a little help. And me telling her that we just need to eat steak and brocolli doesnt help either our diet or the relationship.
What is a dietician going to tell you that you don’t already know?
I guess if you’re looking for someone to convince Mrs. Rugby, then that might be a reason. I am doubtful that will work, but it’s probably worth a shot.
I went to a nutritionist that a woman in my exercise boot camp seemed to get good results with.
He put me on a 2-week cleanse to start. That didn’t do much. When a few more weeks of following the post-cleanse plan didn’t do much, he asked if I wanted to try testosterone (he had a doctor under employ). I did and it worked, but that’s not a great long term solution obviously.
I do still more or less try to follow the plan he laid out as my baseline diet. So I guess I got something out of it.
It’s morethe latter. Helping us figure out together what works for us both, because my version of healthy eating clearly doesnt.
Feb 1 you’ll be able to hear a pin drop in there.
60 Minutes did a piece recently that’s gonna result in a big increase in people applying to work for the state of Rhode Island.
I’ve regularly learned that having someone else tell your significant other the same exact thing you’ve been telling them is actually extremely effective stupidly enough.
One thing I’ve realised while trying to build my squat back up. My hips are all out of whack, and uneven (left/right), this is still definitely linked to me breaking my leg 5 years ago. Which is a bit shit.
Anyway
Found this article.
And it looks great. I’m going to add a few of these to my regular routine.
I go all kinds of different directions on my squat. I’ve given up trying to make it better. I just wiggle my way up and try to lift more the next time.
I did learn some better technique from a thing Victor posted a while back. The main thing that helped me is learning that everyone has a sticking point and a bounce point, and they’re in different places for different people, depending on body shape and squat style.
I tried moving my legs wider, almost sumo-style, like he showed in one of his examples. That created a nice bounce point just below my sticking point, especially with heavier weight that makes me pitch forward more.
Before when I was keeping my legs more parallel and my knees closer together, the only bounce point I could find was basically my butt hitting my ankles, and I didn’t want to go down that far with heavy weight. So I would end up trying to stop myself w/o any bounce help, often right in the middle of my sticking point. It wasn’t pretty.
I’ve managed to run pretty regularly this month after taking some time off for the holidays and some heavy video gaming at the end of last year. Did my hardest run in a while today: 7 miles in total with 20 minutes at threshold pace in the middle. I feel pretty good now, but I’m guessing my long run tomorrow will be tough.
Any scheduled events on the horizon?
I signed up for a couple short races in April, but I’m not planning on doing any specific training for those. There were some other races in the city in February and March that I was thinking about doing, but they’re already sold out.
The seemingly never ending attempts to fix my hip issues continues.
Found a cool video on using 1 leg squat as a diagnosis tool.
So. I did that. Results not good.
Both glutes are clearly weak. With the right being MUCH worse. And my right ankle is a mess.
Of the back of that. I’ve scrapped squats for a bit, going back to unilateral stuff.
Doing one leg KB deadlifts this morning. Really good exercise, but right side is horrible. Struggled hard just to do 3 sets of 6 with 10kgs.
I definitely think its isolated the problem.
On the plus side. Finding a horrible weakness at least gives me a path forward to fix it.
Added bonus. The guy who did the video is 30 minutes away from me in Melbourne. So I’m going to check out his personal training. He seems to understand the problem pretty well.