Would You Take The Pill?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by wolf

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I'm not one of those first-adopter kind of people, or whatever they're called.

Scouts. You can tell from the arrows in their backs.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I'd take it like a shot.
I'm an act now think later kind of person.

You and John McCain.

[glatt]

I'm no expert in weight loss, having never attempted it, but it seems to me that losing weight has got to be harder than maintaining a constant weight. After all, you have to burn off more calories than you take in to lose weight, but to maintain you only have to burn off as many as you bring in.

So if you are able now to maintain your current weight, whatever it is, then if you take the magic pill, you should still be able to maintain your weight. It will just be a new weight you are maintaining.

[monster]

but your new body will most likely need fewer calories for maintenance.

[glatt]

I told you I'm no expert, it shows.

But won't the new body also be all fit and fun and stuff, and you'll be active just because it's fun to be active?

[lookout123]

it's your pill so you can make your own rules. My pill will give me Matt Mccoaauuanaheaaaay's body. preferably not his stoner demeanor though.

[HungLikeJesus]

If you take the pill and lose 30 pounds all at once --- I don't want to be the one having to clean out the toilet.

Also, recent studies indicate that, once your body contains a certain number of fat cells, it wants to maintain that number. If you lose weight, your body will want to rebuild back to where you were before.

[classicman]

I thought fat cells never left they just got smaller.

[lookout123]

You're thinking of trolls. common mistake.

[jinx]

I thought you have a set number of fat cells and they just grow and shrink depending on consumption.

Yeah, what classic said...

[monster]

but it takes more calories to move 400lb than 200lb.

[Nirvana]

You can be born with a certain number of fat cells. Excess intake of calories the body does not use can cause the body to create new fat cells. These cells are always screaming to be filled up! Strict dieting can eliminate fat cells but its very difficult. Maybe liposuction is the answer.

[Griff]

Exactly. The Cellar has a set number of trolls.

[jinx]

Huh. This is interesting.

two patterns of obesity emerge with respect to the cellular character of the adipose tissue mass of these patients: hyperplastic, with increased adipose cell number and normal or increased size, and hypertrophic, with increased cell size alone.

When these different cellular patterns are examined in terms of various aspects of body size, body composition, and the degree, duration, and age of onset of obesity, only the latter uniquely distinguishes the hyperplastic from the hypertrophic: hyperplastic obesity is characterized by an early age of onset, hypertrophic, by a late age of onset. These studies indicate that there are two distinct periods early in life during which hypercellularity of the adipose tissue are most likely to occur: very early within the first few years, and again from age 9 to 13 yr.

[DanaC]

If you weigh more than you "should", and there was a no-physical-side-effects pill that you could take to get instantly to your ideal weight, would you?

How bout if it had no negative physical side effects but got you really high as well? I'd definately consider that....