I apologize in advance if meme is insensitive, I keep accidentally implying things that I don’t mean whenever I make posts on the internet

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      there’s a difference between “restricting calories” and “eating so little that you lack almost all the macro/micronutrients necessary for a properly functioning body”

      one can have a calorie restrictive diet and still be eating junk food too

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      4 months ago

      Calories are just a unit of energy - what you consume usually matters more than how many calories you consume

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    4 months ago

    Some people consider 22:2 or OMAD (one meal a day) intermittent fasting very healthy. Not a whole lot wrong with that, but perhaps not with one meal of fast food a day.

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      4 months ago

      I’ve been doing it since January 2020, which is crazy now that I wrote it down. But I lost 100 pounds that way and I don’t know how to be healthy otherwise. I bike, climb, hike, play in three bands and do a pretty physical job, I often do multiple of those things in a day without issue.

      I don’t know where I was going with this, but I don’t find it to be unhealthy, in fact I feel like I was probably closer to death before.

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    I only get hungry once to twice per day, and usually for only about half of a standard restaurant entree amount. Why is that bad for me? I have not been underweight, and I work from home, so I’m not burning a bunch of calories with routine activity.

    I do know I should work out more though.