Quote: (02-04-2011 03:52 PM)gringoed Wrote:
The point of the diet is to ultimately be able to consume less energy than the body needs without having to overthink it. You made a point to consume more energy, so of course you didnt get major results. Did you read the entire chapter? By the way, of course simple calorie reduction works. Where does he say it doesnt?
I doubt there is a single person around here who does not know that if you eat less than your body spends, you'd lose weight. Even the most illiterate ones don't need Tim Ferris for that. So this point alone wouldn't sell, and his point was different - it matters what food you get your calories from, and not how much total calories you eat. See his "Rule #2". This was a typical argument for high-protein low-carb diet based on food low in GI. If you consume less than your body spends, it does not matter what you consume - you can eat Big Macs and still lose weight.
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Ultimately, that's what successful diets do. Tim talks about how the calorie concept is flawed and that the body metabolizes food differently than an incinerator, but the body still derives energy from food and stores it as fat, and the energy we derive from food is related to calorie count.
To summarize it, calorie concept is not flawed, and has been verified by multiple scientific studies. But if he just followed it, the whole chapter of his book would be thrown away, as "eat less than your body needs" does not take a lot of space, and definitely does not sound ground-breaking.
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Did you get before and after body composition tests as recommended in the book? I used to be a hydrostatic body fat tester and I've seen this all the time where peoples weight and even measurements stay the same but their fat and lean body mass changes significantly.
I have been routinely exercising during last three years, so I saw no reason to expect any significant muscular gain during this month. Indirect evaluation by measuring the results supported it.
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Are you seriously concluding this after not getting proper tests, not following the diet correctly, and being the only subject?
Yes, I am pretty confident about it. There was no need for other tests besides measurements, and body fat check on the scales as significant muscle gain would result in me being able to work out with significantly larger weights, and this did not happen. I followed the diet as prescribed, as it did not require you to calculate calories or to eat less calories than before (and if it did, there would be nothing special in this diet). And being the only subject is fine with me - after all, I have no incentive to lie about my results, I am not selling a book about them.
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In my opinion, this diet is like any other. It works if you can adhere to it and find the urge to eat less. It doesn't work if you don't.
Nobody needs to read a book to understand that.