With as much respect as I can muster, you are my least favorite person on this forum to interact with because you are incredibly rude, at least by my perception, and sometimes obstinate in your ideas which are often wrong and wholly refuted before you by various SME’s.
You are so characteristic in your manner of hostile response, absent concern for either the person or for consideration of their intent, or how that intent came to be present in their mind, that I groaned to myself “ughh am I talking to synthetic again” when I read your response. I hadn’t seen your screen name yet. (I don’t normally check screen name unless I’m curious, and I just attend to ideas, info, and tone/language presented). That indicated, to me, that you are distinct, even among the strong opinions and contrarianism on this forum. It is for that reason I’ve decided to mention it here, for your sake and mostly for others.
So, I guess that makes us even because I suppose you could have stated what you said much better too.
I don’t intend to patronize but if my tone comes off that way, I am sorry. Indeed I’m put off by your response, amidst all the other responses I’ve read from you over the years. And I’m sorry for the public address. I figure it is better this way so that if I’m overreacting, I too can be called out.
Here, I’ll rephrase mine with the addition of one word for explicit clarification:
“Reducing kcal during training doesn't result in weight loss, chronically, though. Often the opposite, in practice. Reason: hypoglycemia is a strong stimulant of long-duration overshot hunger.”
And while I’m here, I’ll add that yes, there are corner cases where it can, chronically but they are outlier and also become conscious of other nutrition factors around the clock. In terms of population averages reduction of intra-workout fueling does more harm than help in the effort of weight management and/or loss. My sample size is large here, and duration of study very long. Before founding my present company my primary job for almost a decade was helping athletes modify their weight and body composition. (n≅1500)
I’ll ask that, regarding the post that you’re claiming I could have stated much better, you please forgive me for my brevity and use of implication for the sake of readability. I may fail here again in the future and would appreciate a much more polite and empathic call-out if, in my interest of time saving, or readability, or conciseness, or sheer lack of writing skill, a message is unclear. Of course, you owe me no such thing, but I just thought I’d state my desire because I’m guessing that most users of this forum who have experienced your harshness and unwavering opinions would prefer the same from you.
I intend to engage in no further discussion with you about fueling and weight loss because of my past experiences reading your approach on various topics including this one. I look forward to engaging with you again on another thread.
Respectfully, albeit a little bothered,
Alex
Dr. Alex Harrison | Founder & CEO | Sport Physiology & Performance PhD
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