[quote]jacheson wrote:
I recently lost 60 lbs. I weighed myself daily. It doesnt make me obsessive, it makes me very involved and informed about my daily choices and what benefits me and what doesnt.[/quote]
Nobody’s saying that there’s anything wrong with weighing yourself as often as you see fit. What I personally find screwy about studies like this is they tend to draw the emphasis away from real lasting solutions to the average fatbody that reads them.
For someone who’s tired enough of what they see in the mirror and hence possesses the proper motivation, the solutions are pretty simple. Maybe very difficult, but quite simple. For someone who hasn’t bottomed out in self disgust all the gimicky sidetracking in the world is a waste of time in money.
There will be people who read something like this and start doing step aerobics with their scale thinking it will somehow help them not be fat anymore.
Here’s an Earth shattering newsflash: People are fat because they consume more usually empty calories than their sluggish, sedentary fat asses can use at a time. Just like I did. Here’s some more, but we may need 800 more studies to confirm it: If they stop eating an excess of empty calories and start moving around, just like I did, they eventually won’t be fat anymore. To really rock the boat: If they continue to follow this breakthrough plan they will never be fat again.
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
Where did you “question the validity of a study”? Here is what you said: “Personally, this strikes me as …” You didn’t question the study. You said, “Well, I don’t think it’s right!” Of course, you hadn’t read the study, instead relying on a news account. Which is funny in and of itself.
Questioning a study is find. But that requires more than a knee-jerk reaction to a news account of said study.
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head shaking
You somehow believe that a line-by-line review of the actual study document is the only way you can come to some kind of conclusion? Or that using a term such as “it strikes me” does not infer questioning the validity of the study because I did not specifically state “I question the validity of the study”? Your focus on semantics is silly.
If you actually read the article, you can get to the meat of their conclusions based on the fact that it is a fairly simple premise and conclusion and they quote one of the researchers involved. This is not a paper on cold fusion physics - it’s a piece on how daily weighing after weight loss is the best means by which to maintain the weight loss. My issue was the fact that it would only take some rather unknowledgable and untrained individuals and make them obsessive, not healthy.
Based on your screen name, the way you write and your arrogance (I’ve seen your other posts), my “knee jerk reaction” is that you’re either a law student or a fairly young lawyer.
It would have taken forever to determine what my maintenance calories were if I didn’t weigh daily.
Let’s not forget that there will be differences between the young and old here. Minor dietary changes will be more significant to those of us without a supercharged metabolism.