Good article...

https://www.humankinetics.com/products/showex cerpt.cfm?excerpt_id=4111

Good article on calorie deficits and what to concentrate on when trying to lose weight.  Insight into why high calorie deficit diets may not be the way to go...

Very interesting article, Erin, thanks.  I would have liked to see more info about the studies they referenced, of course, but it's a good place to start researching from.  There are lots of interesting links to more articles at the top of the page, too.   I think everyone who's ever dieted has experienced the strange physics of weight loss and how 3,500 calories don't always equal one lb.  Starvation diets are definitely, and now even demonstrably, a bad idea.  Sounds like it's tricky, though, to find that ideal caloric intake that maximizes both fat loss and metabolism--that's going to be a bit different for everyone, and probably changes individually as we lose weight/gain muscle, too.  Why can't it ever be easy?  *g*

Sorry, I tried accessing the link but it didn't work.  I was able to get to their homepage but from there I don't know where to find the article you are referring to.  I suspect I'd have to register on that site to access the article.

edit:  hey, how were you able to get it to work?

you dont have to register, i just found the article while doing a google search.  maybe the computer you are on wont allow you on certain sites?  i'd just try the link again and if that doesnt work the title of the article is "Antifat Diet Strategies".  Here is the link again, though the one at the top worked for me when i just tried it again....

https://www.humankinetics.com/products/showex cerpt.cfm?excerpt_id=4111

CCPlus throws odd characters into links, sometimes--copy the link and paste it in, then remove any odd characters in the link that aren't supposed to be there (like %20) or remove any spaces--in Erin's link directly above me, for instance, there's a space that doesn't belong there that was put in by this site.  Clean up the addy in the address bar, and it will work.

Original Post by cc: Very interesting article, Erin, thanks. Sounds like it's tricky, though, to find that ideal caloric intake that maximizes both fat loss and metabolism--that's going to be a bit different for everyone, and probably changes individually as we lose weight/gain muscle, too.

It is an interesting article. This part caught my eye: "One group ate a diet of 500 fewer calories than they needed to maintain their weight each day, and the other group ate 300 fewer calories."

It seems to me that this is the tricky part, calculating the number of calories a person needs. Could he really figure out within a mere  200 calories, the number of calories a test subject burns in a day? 'cause if not, then it would throw everything else off. Good article, though.

Good point, SCG.  I'd like to know what formula they used to get those "exact" numbers!