The title above is a bit tongue in cheek (some would say cheeky), but it
is all too common to see advertisements for
They cut out foods they claim are harmful.
They claim to increase metabolism somehow.
Etc. Etc.
miracle diets.
Diets fail for
They are short-term, but the problem is long-term.
We focus on recording detail and ignore exceptions. Etc. Etc.
many reasons
,
but what concerns us is that they usually try
to push the body out of its natural adjustment to our habits.
Our calorie burn-rate
The body is more fine tuned to fret about not enough
to eat rather than too much.
then drops
into what is often called "Famine Mode".
However shedding
This was not a goal, but rather what his body chose to lose.
fifteen percent
per year avoided that for the author.
That is now incorporated in the design of this app.
Keep Your Eye on the Projection, Not Today's Reading
Results:
The two week filtering-time gives lots of time.
The body's filtering time is more than twenty times longer.
repeatedly
pulling that one number down
locked the
body in
This is how nature works. See homeostasis.
on goal
.