A Tale of Two Metabolisms

In 2004, Jimmy Moore lost 180 lbs on the Atkins diet.

In September 2006, here was one week of menus.

On Sunday he rested ...

Now, you'll notice lots of meat, lots of "junk" laced product that he rails against these days.  Lots of food.  And what's that after every day's foods?  EXERCISE.  Not just any exercise, but cardio.  

He also weighed 219 lbs.   That's a post about a calorie counting formula courtesy of Charles in comments here recently.




Fast forward to August 2014 and a claim Jimmy Moore continues to make to this day:

My normal caloric load is around 2100-2500 calories.

I might have believed that for when he was losing his 80-ish pounds on his one-year NuttyK "experiment" from May 2012 through May 2013.  But anyone who is not legally blind who has seen pictures of Jimmy since can see that he has regained most, if not all, of that weight.  Yet he claims to be eating at those levels.

One of two things is true.  Either:

• Jimmy Moore has finally *broken* his once robust metabolism so that as a 6'3" man pushing 300 lbs he is gaining weight or finally leveling off at a paltry (for him) 2100-2500 calories per day ... 

OR

• Jimmy Moore is at it again lying about his diet, as his health, and the health of his wife, visibly deteriorates.

I think it's a combination of the two.   Being in chronic "metabolic starvation" has no doubt led to compensation in metabolic rate.  Also restricting protein and limiting exertion to the occasional round of disc golf is not really working to build steaks-on-arms.  But he has had to be in caloric surplus to regain the weight ... it makes no sense to speculate as to how.  It just is, and he's a liar.