Lumifer comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 February 2014 03:33:10PM 1 point [-]

I feel Atkins and other diets are often presented as something more scientificky than that. I expected LWers to recognize the ruse.

I feel you're underappreciating the changes ketosis forces upon your body. See, for example, this and this.

Comment author: Brillyant 21 February 2014 03:50:21PM *  0 points [-]

From the second article:

"I am pretty sure when the average person argues for or against ketosis having a “metabolic advantage” what they are really arguing is whether or not, calorie-for-calorie, a person in ketosis has a higher resting energy expenditure. In other words, does a person in ketosis expend more energy than a person not in ketosis because of the caloric composition of what they consume/ingest?

Let me save you a lot of time and concern by offering you the answer: The question has not been addressed sufficiently in a properly controlled trial and, at best, we can look to lesser controlled trials and clinical observations to a make a best guess.

Do you have a guess as to what the overall effect ketosis has on weight loss? If I maximize the effect, what % can I increase the efficiency of my diet?

Comment author: Lumifer 21 February 2014 03:59:20PM *  0 points [-]

Do you have a guess as to what the overall effect ketosis has on weight loss?

I don't have proper data, just anecdata -- suitable for WAGs (wild-ass guesses) but not much more.

the efficiency of my diet

What do you mean by that?

Besides, being in long-term ketosis tends to lead to many consequences unconnected with weight loss or gain. See e.g. here for some discussion. Anecdotally many people who's been on VLC diets for a year or so tend to develop problems that go away when they add a bit of glucose (=carbs) to their intake.

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