Its just so hard to get a view on how many calories I’m consuming!
Sure its calories and not Kilojoules? (my exercise bike displays kilojoules and it take me about 15 mins to burn 420KJ - which is about 100 calories) so it would take me 2.5 hours to use 1000 calories on that bike!
Yes and no. If all other were equal, it would be true, but it's not. Exercise raises the BMR, so what was your reference point no longer is.
I’m increasingly coming to the view that gut flora are fundamentally important in many ways, weight control being just one of them.It’s all about yer microbes. Tim Spector’s The Diet Myth is good on why it’s not as simple as food consumed/energy burned.
It’s all about yer microbes. Tim Spector’s The Diet Myth is good on why it’s not as simple as food consumed/energy burned.
I’m increasingly coming to the view that gut flora are fundamentally important in many ways, weight control being just one of them.
It's not irrelevant at all. The point I am making, supported by the current scientific consensus, is that the tick-over level is not fixed. I am currently sitting in a chair, jogging along on ~100 kcal an hour. If I go for a run at 300 kcal an hour I don't then come home and drop immediately back to where I was, any more than the 300kcal added arithmetically to my 100kcal sitting in a chair requirements.That is irrelevant as far as the research is concerned. The whole point made is that increased burning of calories does not happen, the extra calories needed are very largely reallocated from the energy used to just keep your body on tick-over.
I was exaggerating, but he’s not really saying that about fat and carbs.Hmm I beg to differ in that it's "all" about your microbes. Having had a quick look at what Tim has to say he's basically just repeating the common sense approach that going on a "diet" is never going to work. The idea that you go on a diet would suggest that at some point you come off the diet. He also talks about the cutting out carbs, cutting out fat etc which again he makes the point of it being unsustainable and not needed.
The healthy eating and fitness industry is a bit like the hifi industry in a sense in that there is a lot of trying to reinvent the wheel and a lot of it purely for financial gain.
I'll put that on the bookshelf alongside "Cooking with Lard"
I was exaggerating, but he’s not really saying that about fat and carbs.
It's not irrelevant at all.
(1) If you want to lose weight, consume a diet not loaded with unnecessary calories particularly carbs.