How they do figure out if you're a super absorb-er? I have suspected that I am for years, but, am curious how they figure that out.
Many folks on here have coined the term “Super Absorber”. I don’t think I started it, but, I’ve probably used that term more than anyone. As far as I know, it is NOT an official diagnosis, BUT one that people whom never over ate and gained weight know exists.
A calorie is a unit of measurement based on energy expended or available to be expended and is SUPPOSE to be a mathematical and physics constant that is non-negotiable, it can NOT lie, right, its science, its MATH, it’s one of the basics of what we Engineers call the “Laws of Thermodynamics”. According to the very fundamental laws of Thermodynamics, a calorie is a unit of measurement, a unit of potential energy that is available to be expended or stored. 3500 calories = 1 lb either gained or lost, i.e., excess or deficit. Someone my PREVIOUS size had to eat 3,000+ calories a day to maintain, (allegedly)…LOL…LOL…LOL. I could only eat 500-800-(1000 on weekends) calories (PER DAY OR I WOULD GAIN WEIGHT), puts me in in a 2,200 caloric deficit per day. Per this mathematical constant, which is non-negotiable according to the Laws of science and math that they go by, I should be losing about .50 - .75lbs a day.
That is why Doctors, Science people etc don’t believe you…AND ME! For reasons science has yet to understand, those scientific standards are BULLSHIT! Those of us whom have metabolic disease/disorders do not work that way. When we eat, we store fat, not burn. I believe It is the same survival mechanisms in place that allows a bear to hibernate for 6 months or allows a turtle to live to be 200 yrs old. Did you ever wonder how a whale can become 95% FAT and Blubber when all it eats is plankton and fish??? SAME MECHANISM, I believe this store gene is in a lot of us because ancestors come from places where food was limited. And when they could feed every couple weeks, their bodies stored everything, it is a store gene of yet to be identified.
For 35+ years, I also made the situation worse by not eating much so as to NOT gain even more weight and it becomes a self-replicating downward spiral because the less you eat, the more your body adapts and goes even more deeper in to the “self-preservation” mode thus lowering your metabolism even more. It’s a downward spiral you can NOT get out of, it was friggin horrible how I had to live my life looking back on it.
Regarding your recent WL….I’d be willing to bet you $100 bucks that you were in your first stall which is usually the biggest one. I believe the first one has the longest duration because it is the first time in 30+ years (for me) that your body is actually burning stored fat and it is LITERALLY learning how to do it. Again, MY THEORY and not proven. The reason you don’t appear to be losing weight during that time period (but you actually really still are, IMHO), is because your body is gaining around 3-8lbs (1 gallon of water =8lbs or so) of water to do this conversion thing to convert stored fat to energy that Diana goes in to detail describing in the “Inevitable 3 week stall” post. The WL all of a sudden shows up AFTER your body is done doing that conversion, because you expel the excess water weight, and subsequently unveil the actual WL that had occurred during that period.
The next time it happened to me, after I/we figured it out, I never worried about it anymore after that and would just laugh about it because I could actually feel it a knew what my body was doing. I have had SEVERAL stalls. Little ones and big ones and I always know that it is that because I slow down on my urinating and my urine is yellow..AND, nothing sounds good to me to eat.…
Now that you know FOR SURE what it was and that your DS is NOT broken, you will be ok on the next one.
BTW, I love a ribeye, too.
