The boring short post instead of the interesting ones I've been thinking of

So I've totally been meaning to post about the concept "can you change your diet without dieting" that I saw on the lovelivegrow blog and I've also been meaning to do an in-depth response to this atheist book wild_irises sent me and my thoughts about how the arguments do and don't apply to my religion as I practice it.

But I have no time for these interesting long posts. So instead, here's me seeking info.

I went to the doctor and she said there was nothing I could do about my elevated liver enzymes/fat-marbled liver except lose weight. (To be fair, she didn't say it like she was prescribing weight loss or like OMG OBESITY!!! either.) So I was like, "That's interesting because I was just reading about how studies show there's no way to do that in the long term." And she was like, "True. Except there's some more studies that show that if you do these three things, you'll gain back 10 - 30% instead of 95-110%." I asked her if she knew which studies, but she didn't know off hand. So I'm wondering if these were really studies, or just "what everyone knows" or "some shit the CDC said." Do any of you know? Because if it's true, that kind of changes how I look at the choice to diet for me personally (not my opinion that people deserve human rights, respect, and good treatment regardless of body size, btw). Do any of you know about these possible studies, or know of a resource where I might be able to dredge them up (in all my copious computer time these days).

Incidentally, the three things are:

- Lose weight gradually so that you don't trigger your body's "I'm starving!" response.
- Do a diet that you can switch to a modified version of when you're done losing weight. (I'm assuming "modified" doesn't mean modified back to how you were eating before?)
- Exercise at least 90 minutes a week, 45 of which are something like weight lifting which will build muscle mass.

If any of you all have info on this, I'd totally appreciate it!

And finally that HCG diet follow up...

So I told you all I'd follow up about that HCG diet my naturopath suggested, like, 3 years ago to help me lose weight to counteract PCOS to have a baby. Here's what happened:

- I did lose 20 pounds in 30 days without really being hungry or having too hard of a time or feeling icky
- I lost entirely only abdominal fat
- It didn't fix my PCOS (or help me have a baby as far as I know)
- I gained almost exactly the 20 pounds back over the course of a year, all back on my abdomen
- During that year, I ate sugar and other blood-sugar spikers freely, which I understand is likely to cause more abdominal fat gain if you have PCOS or other pre-diabetes type things
- Over the past 3 years, my weight has since been stable, so I probably didn't permanently fuck my metabolism