Reddit Reddit reviews Conquering Fat Logic: how to overcome what we tell ourselves about diets, weight, and metabolism

We found 6 Reddit comments about Conquering Fat Logic: how to overcome what we tell ourselves about diets, weight, and metabolism. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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Conquering Fat Logic: how to overcome what we tell ourselves about diets, weight, and metabolism
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6 Reddit comments about Conquering Fat Logic: how to overcome what we tell ourselves about diets, weight, and metabolism:

u/BoxKatt · 20 pointsr/fatlogic

Quite sure that it is "Conquering Fat Logic"

u/SassyFacts · 17 pointsr/fatlogic

Everybody read this book it is the fatlogic reddit in book form, except nicer and everything is on one place.

I find it incredibly motivating.

u/Ranessin · 5 pointsr/fatlogic

Conquering Fatlogic by Nadja Hermann is the thing you want. It's basically /r/fatlogic in book form (she posted here a few years ago). Also great to give other people to get them started in the right direction.

u/captroper · 2 pointsr/loseit

First of all, if he has binge eating disorder, he should get help. I went to an outpatient treatment center for BED, and while it made me really frustrated that I gained weight while there, it did stop the binge eating. That's important, because if you try to to diet while you have BED it can make it worse and result in not losing anything.

Second, the idea that you can put back weight significantly faster than you can lose it is generally false. You may well see a significant amount of weight gained, but it's just water weight, not fat. I used to spend a month dieting, lose 4-5 pounds, and then I'd have a full weekend of cheat days (binge days really), see the scale go up by 7 pounds and say, "what the hell was the point of that full month of dieting when I gain more than that back in 2 days??" and then give up. But of course, there is no way that I actually gained back the 5 pounds that I lost, I'd have to have eaten 18000 calories over my maintenance amount to do that (roughly 21,000 calories over 2 days). What was really happening was that I had stored a lot of water weight, and by giving up at that point it eventually became real weight (by consistently over-eating day after day).

I'd really recommend the book, "Conquering Fat Logic". I generally find that self-help type books are nothing more than a scam, but I actually found this one really helpful. The author goes through and chapter by chapter addresses ideas that I hear constantly cited as fact. She cites studies to back up why each of them is false or as she says "fat-logic."

u/malalalaika · 1 pointr/loseit

Conquering Fatlogic has helped many people to identify flawed thinking around weight, health and weight loss.

u/katarh · 1 pointr/nottheonion

You've got about 2 weeks with no food intake before your body starts cannibalizing its own muscle, if you are moving around a little each day (basic resistance training.)

Before that, your body is going to first exhaust its stores of glycogen, then switch over to fat (aka ketosis aka what the people doing keto are trying to accomplish.)

But after about two weeks with no calorie intake at all, your body's protein supplies are exhausted, and in order to keep the organs going, your body will begin to dissolve essential tissues like bone and muscle. (You can always rebuild those in better times - if you stay alive. Body knows its priorities.)

Anyway TL;DR: You've got two weeks on a desert island where you'll only lose fat first. After that, better go full Castaway and start eating raw shellfish if nothing else.

(Source: Conquering Fat Logic. It's a good book. )