"Easy default weight"

[nancylebov]

I hypthesized recently that most people aren't far off their easy default weight.

I still think it's a reasonable guess. I doubt that most people are eating and/or exercising enough more or enough less than they want to affect their weight much, but what's your intuition?

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of people eat slightly more than they need to each day, and that this adds up, leading to many people being significantly far off a more natural weight. I think it happens because certain foods (corn syrup comes to mind) slip by the body's systems of checks and balances regarding what the body's weight should be, and whether that was enough food to eat or not.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

(Also -- any arguments involving BMI as the measurement will have a bit of a hump to get over with me; it's nearly useless as a diagnostic tool, popularized simply because it's easy to measure rather than meaningful. I note this because it came up in both the thread you link to, and the blog post...)

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

That's my feeling as well, that many people could change their weight fairly significantly with changes that aren't very hard but seem very unobvious from where they are now.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I am not sure that it is corn syrup in of itself being any worse than sugar, but that it is so darn inexpensive it is used in excess in anything and everything. And makes those things that would normally use sugar, like sodas, much less expensive so that people will have an extra 100-200 calories with lunch or dinner every day while getting their caffeine fix.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I really think it's the HFCS. For sheer caloric intake, the body will generally adjust and
you'll eat less other times.

[crystalpyramid]

Is easy default weight a technical term? What does it mean? How would it be defined other than, "however much the person weighs right now"?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

It's not a technical term. It's my phrase for what people end up weighing if they aren't using a lot of will power to affect their weight. It's pretty fuzzy.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I suspect my EDW has four or five digits. I've had a serious ratchet effect with gains--I can go back down a little but haven't made major changes.