re: Why is it so hard for most people to lose weight?

That whole "eat less and get off of your lazy arse" part is a struggle for most these days.

Without reading 10 pages -

It’s because it’s the only problem out there where people start the corrective action with plans to have “cheat days”.

No one says “I am going to stop heroin on 6 days of the week but on Sundays, I can use”.

If you are fat - make a change for the rest of your life. No exceptions or cheating.

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These are literally all just different methods of maintaining a deficit. Eat less often, guess what? You’re probably eating less calories. Eat less calorie dense items, guess what? You’re at a deficit.

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You don’t need a calorie deficit. If you feed your body what it needs, you can not eat too much. Body weight is regulated by hormones. Normalize the hormones and avoid foods that screw with them and calorie counting is a thing of the past.

It’s what you eat and when you eat, not how much you eat (as long as you’re getting enough).

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You don’t need a calorie deficit

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That's quite literally all you need.

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If you feed your body what it needs, you can not eat too much

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Absolutely wrong. If I eat 10k calories of chicken breast I'm still going to be a fatass.

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Body weight is regulated by hormones. Normalize the hormones and avoid foods that screw with them and calorie counting is a thing of the past.

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I'd like to know where you formulated this theory from.

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It’s what you eat and when you eat, not how much you eat (as long as you’re getting enough).

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If you said the complete opposite of this you'd be right, but you couldnt be more wrong

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theunknownknight

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Do you have low self-esteem?

As for as this thread. We live in a world where families don't have time to cook, so they do the fasted thing available. They pick something up at McDonalds or Burger King.. And if that is the lifestyle someone established a few years ago, it's hard for them to break out of.

And it comes down to something pretty simple. People are taking in more calories than they are burning. People are working in their cubes all day, at lunch, they get out and go pick up fast food, then go back to work to sit in front of a computer for another 4 hrs..

Then there are all the "lose-weight" products out there. This type of diet, that type of diet and they all don't work the same for everyone. If people would simply become more active and just be aware of what you eat. If someone happens to eat more than average, then they will have to be a little more active than average to burn it off.

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We live in a world where families don't have time to cook,

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Total and complete bullshite and this excuse is why there are so many fatasses

You are talking out of your arse.

Naturally thin people may appear to eat often but they are always consuming less overall by eating slowly, skipping other meals, not finishing meals, having food eversions that happen to pack calories, etc.

They may have irritable bowls that cause malabsorption but that’s not often the case.

They also do small things that go unnoticed like fidget more often, get bored easily, have hobbies that distract from eating or add up in extra calories burnt over time.

Also, many people neglect to consider the number of people at a slim weight that do make continuous conious decisions to maintain that.

Overweight people tend to not know the difference between being satisfied and stuffing themselves beyond satiation.

Some people eat to live, others live to eat

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Also, you are focusing too much on diet plans. The shits money making variations of whatever nonsense someone can come up with to sell people too ignorant to count their own damn calories

Different components of intake achieve varying levels of satiation despite calories. For example, 100 calories of protein has the potential to equate a feeling of satisfaction at the level of and over and longer period of time to roughly 5 times that of carbs, which require larger quantities and digest quickly.
At the end of the day no matter how you look over what’s occurring, it’s a calorie deficiet and when comparing yourself to others all other factors must be controlled for you to argue any significant variation. When looking at the big picture, it is absurd to focus on small factors with a combined less than tenth the impact on weight compared to the calorie in/out

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had to in high school.

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I was close to 6' and 135lbs and couldn't gain weight. My grandmother called me a gutted snowbird. I would make 2500 calorie shakes.

Fast forward to age 30 and I hit 220.

Metabolism is a known process in many ways, but there are nuances we still don't understand.

Ftr, I'm a steady 165-180 in my 40s, just paying attention.

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People eat out too much
People eat too much calorie and carb laden fast food
People buy and consume too much processed junk foods
People drink loads of soft drinks
Too little physical exercise
Too much computer, tv and video games
ad infinitum

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And there are plenty of people that do this and still appear fit as a fiddle. Just as there are plenty of people that do all the right things and are still overweight.

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Assuming no medical issues.

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Laziness.

Everyone wants an easy way but it takes dedication and an actual effort to affect change.