Rebroadcast: My Over Eating Experiment

Episode 040: At the end of January I set myself a challenge. Every day, for a period of 12 weeks, I was going to eat a minimum of 3,200 calories per day. If was had room, I could eat more…and on some days I’d see just how high I could take it. (My highest day turned […]

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Episode 040: At the end of January I set myself a challenge. Every day, for a period of 12 weeks, I was going to eat a minimum of 3,200 calories per day. If was had room, I could eat more…and on some days I’d see just how high I could take it. (My highest day turned out to be just under 5,000 calories).

According to online calculators I need 2,800 calories per day to maintain my weight, so eating 3,200 as a minimum meant I would be taking in a lot of extra food. Oh, and just so you know, it wasn’t going to be all “health” food. I was going to eat everything. This included lots of frozen pizzas, ready meals, trips to McDonald’s, KFC and a lot of wine.

This week’s episode of Real Health Radio is all about this over eating experiment, how it affected my weight, my symptoms and what happened once it was over.  I then use this as a launch pad to talk about calories in and calories out, what are potential drivers for weight gain (or loss) and the relationship between weight and health.

Here’s what I talk about in this podcast episode:

1:00 How people think about weight and calories

3:25 Why I picked 3,200 calories as my daily target

5:00 How I tracked things

5:55 What my exercise habit look like

8:10 How I worked out my daily calorie needs

13:00 My weight at the start of the experiment

14:30 What kind of foods I ate during the experiment and how this changed

22:45 Being hungry and full at the same time

24:55 What changes I noticed in my symptoms

28:05 How easy it would be to forget what I ate

29:40 How much I ate across the experiment

33:10 How my weight changed throughout the experiment

39:15 What I noticed after the experiment ended

47:35 Why it can be so difficult for some people to lose weight

49:35 The weight set point theory

53:15 What if I lived in a society that valued fatness?

55:35 BMI and health

60:20 Do I believe in calories in and calories out?

61:25 The calories in side of the equation

71:45 The calories out side of the equation

82:50 The common drivers for weight gain

85:45 High reward food

88:30 Food diversity

90:55 Circadian Rhythm

95:40 Metabolic decreasing foods

98:35 Dieting

101:05 Macronutrient deficiency

104:25 Micronutrient deficiency

105:40 Overabundance of calories

108:00 Lack of moving and sitting

111:00 Emotional Eating

113:15 Hypothyroidism

114:25 Stress

116:50 Weight stigma and fat shaming

120:30 Poverty

125:20 Health of parents at conception and while in utero

128:05 My recent experience with two obese clients

130:00 The two main reasons people want to lose weight

Links referred to in this episode:

The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos

Why The Calorie Is Broken

Problems With Calories In

Problems With Calories Out

Metabolic Damage

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham

Real Health Radio 017: How To Improve Your Sleep

Real Health Radio 023: Understanding Thyroid

Stress and Weight Gain

Stress, Appetite and Potbellies

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky

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