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

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Yes. I’ve been trying to lose 20 pounds for 15 years

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You can easily lose that in water weight alone.

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20 pounds of water weight? How long would that take?

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3 days if you do it right.

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There's 7 days in a week. Let's say you eat as you described 3 days a week. That's nearly 50% of the time that you eat like shite, but you don't lose weight because your body is different? That's a bullshite excuse you've rationalized because you want to eat pizza and drink beer.

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I eat like that maybe once or twice out of 2 weeks. But you know, don't listen to me at all because clearly you know everything.

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olgoi khorkhoi

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You’re saying exactly what you think you’re not. You’re saying it’s nearly impossible to overeat “good foods”. Guess what that means? EATING AT A CALORIE DEFICIT

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You said you eat pizza once a week so just by that your statement can't be true.

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I clearly said once every other week.

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Everybody's body is different. I don't know why that is so hard for some people to accept. The path to losing weight does not look the same for everyone, and that is ok.

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Eat less than you burn. That number for everyone is different but it's just a different way to skin a cat.

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I do something which works for me. As I said, if I was willing to stick to one of those very strict diets, I could possibly lose more. The issue is those aren't sustainable for me.

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So it's mental not physical.

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So it's mental not physical.

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It is absolutely mental. But we are fooling ourselves if we don't think physical doesn't play a part at all.

Eating became a social activity and/or something people do for enjoyment rather than necessity, hence people gravitate towards foods that taste good rather than simply eating to stay alive.

Our diet is vastly out of sync with what we should be eating because we are absolutely inundated with stuff that's bad for us whereas you actually have to put in some effort to maintain a healthy diet.

That said, I wouldn't necessarily say skinny people are always eating a healthy diet and heavier people are always pigging out. Genetics has a lot to do with it.

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even if you are taking food into your mouth at a caloric surplus

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So if you are eating more calories than you burn you will not gain fat is what you are saying?

I'll go against the grain, a large part of the problem is knowledge.

The first law of thermodynamics always applies, burn more calories than you take in. However, it's most sustainable if you're able to feel full while operating at a caloric deficit - that part is mostly knowledge.

The first major kink in this knowledge is systemic - the promotion of 'low fat' diets to lose weight, this narrative was pushed by many organizations and is not being retracted even as we know better and more studies show we've just spent the last 30 years with our collective heads up our collective arses.

This just makes losing weight harder, especially if you start dumping fats for fruits and starches with a lot of sugar (and the entire time thinking you're being healthy).

An example of this is yogurt. To be fit they introduced low fat yogurt. Of course, this didn't sell because the fat was the tasty part of yogurt. So, they introduced the "fruit on the bottom" yogurts with both the sugars from the fruits and added sugar. All to replace the taste that was lost when the fat was pulled. T

Unfortunately, I have that disease that prescribes me a handy meter to know within a few hours if I'm taking in too much sugar (or quickly converting starches to sugar - which is a little more tricky). It also means I usually know, to an annoying level, what the macronutrient balance is for just about any meal I'm taking in. It's amazing the difference in satiation that different meals can provide; while all being similar in caloric intake, cost, and effort.