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Decius comments on My experience with dieting and exercise - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Decius 01 November 2012 12:02:45AM 4 points [-]

If your maintenance diet leaves you hungry at the end of meals, it will require indefinite ability to suppress hunger to maintain the diet indefinitely. You need a program which results in not being hungry at the end of meals, and ideally one in which you eat whenever you become hungry.

Maintaining weight in the presence of free choice food is a matter of hacking either metabolism or the hunger reflex or both. Simply restricting food intake does neither.

Comment author: Apprentice 01 November 2012 09:53:43AM 1 point [-]

Eating a maintenance diet doesn't leave me hungry at the end of meals - it's more that eating tasty food is tempting even without the presence of hunger.

Anyway, the post has five downvotes so there must be something wrong with it - /dev/null will be a good place for it.