I started recording my weight daily simultaneous with beginning the diet [...]
When I started my diet I went to the gym 4-6 days a week, alternating between running and weight-lifting. I currently go to the gym 4-6 days a week, alternating between running and weight-lifting.
So, you started going to the gym a lot and you started measuring your weight daily and and you lost weight and got healthier. (And also happened to change your diet.)
That’s not really an experiment with Paleo. Not unless you’d already been going to the gym like that and paying that much attention to what you ate and how much you weighed.
Edit: I suppose that the “when I started” statement could be read two ways, one of which would imply that you already worked out that hard (6 days per week) prior to paleo. Though it seems odd you’d be able to do so and still be able to lose 20% of your bodyweight in fat, so I’ll assume for now that’s not what it was.
So, you started going to the gym a lot and you started measuring your weight daily and and you lost weight and got healthier. (And also happened to change your diet.)
You aren’t interpreting that sentence correctly. Before and after starting the diet, I was exercising approximately the same amount. Although it is possible that merely increasing the frequency of recording my weight had a (round-about) causal effect on my weight-loss, the magnitude of the effect doesn’t seem very likely.
Although it is possible that merely increasing the frequency of recording my weight had a (round-about) causal effect on my weight-loss, the magnitude of the effect doesn’t seem very likely.
Measuring weight does lead to weight loss- but mostly through unconscious changes in diet and activity level. If you’re consciously changing your diet at the same time, it should wipe out those effects.
Ah. Well then that is a signficant change. How long had you been working out at that level prior to starting the diet?
Like, could you have been in the (1-2 mo.) muscle building phase right before starting paleo, then the weight loss phase kicked in just as you started it? Or had you been working out for years at that level then decided to start paleo?
So, you started going to the gym a lot and you started measuring your weight daily and and you lost weight and got healthier. (And also happened to change your diet.)
That’s not really an experiment with Paleo. Not unless you’d already been going to the gym like that and paying that much attention to what you ate and how much you weighed.
Edit: I suppose that the “when I started” statement could be read two ways, one of which would imply that you already worked out that hard (6 days per week) prior to paleo. Though it seems odd you’d be able to do so and still be able to lose 20% of your bodyweight in fat, so I’ll assume for now that’s not what it was.
You aren’t interpreting that sentence correctly. Before and after starting the diet, I was exercising approximately the same amount. Although it is possible that merely increasing the frequency of recording my weight had a (round-about) causal effect on my weight-loss, the magnitude of the effect doesn’t seem very likely.
Measuring weight does lead to weight loss- but mostly through unconscious changes in diet and activity level. If you’re consciously changing your diet at the same time, it should wipe out those effects.
Ah. Well then that is a signficant change. How long had you been working out at that level prior to starting the diet?
Like, could you have been in the (1-2 mo.) muscle building phase right before starting paleo, then the weight loss phase kicked in just as you started it? Or had you been working out for years at that level then decided to start paleo?