This is sort of like trying to fly a plane using Newtonian physics. Like, you can do it. But it’s more an exercise in pedantry than practicality.
My body, for example, loves to frivol away weight. I can eat like a pig and lounge around and my basal metabolism will spike and I won’t gain weight (nor lose much strength, though I do lose definition). Similar for people with metabolic syndrome: their bodies will literally start starving themselves by cutting basal metabolism in reaction to less food or more exertion before they’ll give up some fat cells. Not everyone who is obese has metabolic syndrome. But you’re going against the science if you insist all we need is diet and exercise education.
This is sort of like trying to fly a plane using Newtonian physics. Like, you can do it. But it’s more an exercise in pedantry than practicality.
My body, for example, loves to frivol away weight. I can eat like a pig and lounge around and my basal metabolism will spike and I won’t gain weight (nor lose much strength, though I do lose definition). Similar for people with metabolic syndrome: their bodies will literally start starving themselves by cutting basal metabolism in reaction to less food or more exertion before they’ll give up some fat cells. Not everyone who is obese has metabolic syndrome. But you’re going against the science if you insist all we need is diet and exercise education.