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You'd think that some people would be able to practise self control or watch calories but no.
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You'd think that some people would be able to practise self control or watch calories but no.
Not that I agree with this method, but it's clearly not that simple (as otherwise we wouldn't have a massive obesity epidemic).
The simple fact is we are highly drawn to sugary & fatty foods due to our evolutions, unfortunately now these foods are easily available we get fat.
Undoing thousands of years of evolution seems a little bit more of a task than say, reducing the sugar & fat content of popular foods.
But it is that simple.
The reasons why people fail to lose weight are:
Lack of self control
Lack of understanding that as they age their BMR decreases
Vastly underestimating the amount of calories they're eating
Vastly overestimating the amount of calories they're burning
It all comes down to the same thing: calories out > calories in = weight loss.
Agreed it's quite easy to lose weight once the above is understood, and what in thier diet needs to be avoided
E.G: 3 Macie D's meals.....and a diet coke
LOL WUT
You are blaming evolution on fatties eating too much stuff that is bad for them?
I didn't say knowing how to lose weight is complicated.
I said doing it is complicated.
Saying, "omg have some willpower" - is a gross over-simplification of the underline causes of obesity.
If everybody could instantly have willpower hardly anybody would be fat, lazy, or a myriad of other self-harming activities.
Are you suggesting that our evolution plays no part in our preference for sweet or fatty foods?.
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'weight' loss is easy...doing it properly is something else.
as per your calories in > calories out thing, its perfectly possible to lose weight by eating at mcdonalds for every single meal...or eating nothing but chocolate.
losing fat is the thing people need to do..and that is not as simple as calories out > calories in
Which are what?
Fat mind, fat body. If you are lazy and don't look into why you're fat, or if you can't be bothered to research it or make time to do anything about it, you will stay fat.
they obviously arent normal though are they? they are heavily obese and on the way to their death. they obviously dont have self control.
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While it's true at base level, I prefer to look at it in the more "complete" dietary sense.
Sure, you could tell someone that exercise and calorie deficit is the way to weight loss, but that can also be used to just as detrimental effect on the body as eating too much.
Taking in a 300-calorie deficit in food daily, coupled with 250+ calories burned through exercise is, on paper, the way forward for someone looking to lose weight. Problem is, what if that person is packing out the rest of their calories with crap? They're doing their body no good whatsoever -- and while they'll lose weight, it'll be a miserable and slow process.
The person staying in deficit and exercising vigorously daily for cardio and strength would be better served upping their calories slightly, and paying attention to what is in the food they eat. Counting the calories is all good and well, but if you're looking for good improvement you need to make sure you're getting the protein you need to rebuild and recover, and keep the sugars down in your food and drink, too. Someone who doesn't understand this may just think that since they've got a few hundred calories to spare, it doesn't matter whether they eat some gateau or plump for some lean chicken instead, after working out.
There's a lot more education that people need beyond "calories in < calories out, you eejit!"
Being so simplistic leads to people eating nothing but two cans of soup a day, exercising like a mad case and dying of heart failure.
On topic with the OP, though -- what an incredibly dumb idea. Can't people just put some seriously hot chilli in whatever they eat if they want to go to that extreme (unless they're chilli-heads, of course)? I could easily see some massive pleb with one these sewn on their tongue drinking liquidised cheeseburgers and complaining that it doesn't work.
Very good post.
I am saying it plays no part in fat people being unable to control their diet, like many millions of non-obese humans seem to manage perfectly well.
Comfort eating.
Parents instilling food into the reward punishment mechanism during the early developmental period in a child's life.
Sugar addiction.
Which is beside the point, what you are pointing out are things which can result in being fat - not the reasons why the person has those traits, or the potential barriers to removing those traits (which will allow them to exercise or do something about the situation).
As I said, a gross over-simplification.
Yes, it is. As long as you keep within your Total Daily Energy Expenditure. It wouldn't be very good for you though.
It is that simple.