Added a sentence to the opener expressing the essential issue. Whether pure potatoes or meal replacement shakes, my body isn’t fooled by them. I have plenty of hunger to eat 2500 calories of potatoes or drink half a dozen shakes, so there’s no advantage over eating regular, interesting food.
If I can’t solve the mystery subtractively, a ’tide drug is the last resort. I don’t yet have a rationale I can articulate for wanting to succeed on my “factory settings” but the desire is there.
Ah, too bad. (To me it makes a difference: it is easy to overeat with normal food, but I have no such desire with the meal replacements.) By the way, have you tried adding edible fiber (psyllium) to your diet? That’s basically zero calories but helps fill the stomach.
I don’t yet have a rationale I can articulate for wanting to succeed on my “factory settings” but the desire is there.
I get it. Drugs often have side effects, and just having to buy and remember to eat them is inconvenient. It would be much nicer if things “just worked”. Sadly, often they don’t. :(
Given that you are mostly retired, maybe you could experiment more with energy expenditure? Like, try doing sport all day long for two weeks. Problem is, even if that solved the problem, it would probably take a lot of time, so you wouldn’t want to do this permanently. Is there a smart way to spend calories without spending time, for example always wearing a heavy backpack? Or just do some heavy-intensity exercise every morning and evening. Make your house colder. Put your computer on a walking desk. Etc.
You are drawing out many thoughts I had not explicitly stated in the post, so thank you. The contest is offered as such because I believe I’ve already stumbled into an answer and it is buried within the data. A couple weeks here and there when I ate certain macros or walked enough steps and prematurely quit, not realizing careful retrospective analysis reveals statistically significant loss above RMR for those periods that persisted for months, before being reversed by whatever combination of factors “unlocks” raising my set point.
Added a sentence to the opener expressing the essential issue. Whether pure potatoes or meal replacement shakes, my body isn’t fooled by them. I have plenty of hunger to eat 2500 calories of potatoes or drink half a dozen shakes, so there’s no advantage over eating regular, interesting food.
If I can’t solve the mystery subtractively, a ’tide drug is the last resort. I don’t yet have a rationale I can articulate for wanting to succeed on my “factory settings” but the desire is there.
Ah, too bad. (To me it makes a difference: it is easy to overeat with normal food, but I have no such desire with the meal replacements.) By the way, have you tried adding edible fiber (psyllium) to your diet? That’s basically zero calories but helps fill the stomach.
I get it. Drugs often have side effects, and just having to buy and remember to eat them is inconvenient. It would be much nicer if things “just worked”. Sadly, often they don’t. :(
Given that you are mostly retired, maybe you could experiment more with energy expenditure? Like, try doing sport all day long for two weeks. Problem is, even if that solved the problem, it would probably take a lot of time, so you wouldn’t want to do this permanently. Is there a smart way to spend calories without spending time, for example always wearing a heavy backpack? Or just do some heavy-intensity exercise every morning and evening. Make your house colder. Put your computer on a walking desk. Etc.
You are drawing out many thoughts I had not explicitly stated in the post, so thank you. The contest is offered as such because I believe I’ve already stumbled into an answer and it is buried within the data. A couple weeks here and there when I ate certain macros or walked enough steps and prematurely quit, not realizing careful retrospective analysis reveals statistically significant loss above RMR for those periods that persisted for months, before being reversed by whatever combination of factors “unlocks” raising my set point.