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

I agree 100%. I hear it all the time. Folks think the sugar filled smoothies are healthy and they aren’t at all. Many seemingly healthy foods out there really impede people from loosing weight during their diets. Essentially people need to give up the sugar. As it’s the yeast in your gut that craves all that sugar makes it becomes super hard to resist these cravings. A healthy gut is really the only path the sustainable weight loss.

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You said if you eat "the right things" you can't gain weight. I said that's bull shite because it is.

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Forget about weight and focus on fat. You can eat as much as you want of the right things while losing fat.

You wouldn’t be able to eat much of the right things if you laid in bed all day. I don’t think you’d get fat. I also don’t think it’s possible to lay in bed all day when your hormones are correct. Your energy would be through the roof.

It doesn’t seem like you want to really think or learn.

Did you read the article? If not, go get 5 or 6 plates of chicken breast and give it a looksee.

The science of losing weight is simple. You create a calorie deficit add in cardio and resistance exercise, so long as you don't have medical issues going on, you will lose weight.

But genetics has a lot to do with how easily you lose weight. I say that as someone that's naturally skinny and has had no issues taking off weight. I see others working their arses off that will never have a slim physique or be able to sustain it.

That's just the way things are, similar to how I'll never dunk a basketball or have a bodybuilder physique. We all have a genetic blueprint. You'd be lying to yourself if you think some aren't naturally predisposed to having a skinnier physique than others.

Way too much trouble.

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

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I’m saying a lot and your boiling it way down and missing huge chunks.

1. Every calorie you put into your mouth is not absorbed by your body.

2. Every type of calorie is not absorbed at the same rate

What does this mean? You can eat more calories than you burn, but absorb less calories than you burn. For instance, consider 2 examples with no change in activity level: A person consumes 2500 calories of mostly simple carbs, absorbs 2200 of them while burning 1900 of them and runs a 300 cal surplus, which is stored as fat. The same person consumes 2500 calories of mostly healthy fats, moderate protein, and fiber with almost no simple carbs, absorbs 2100 of them and burns 2000. Still a surplus. The question is, what is the body going to do with the surplus? The healthy fat has raised T levels, no simple carbs keeps insulin low which allows normal HGH release. All other hormones are optimized. The person is going to add muscle and his body is adapting to use fat as a primary fuel source. He gained weight in both instances, but he looks and feels like shite and is likely now craving more terrible food in the first example. In the second example, he has energy to burn and, because of the energy, is going to be more active and spiral upward.

Because of how quickly the body metabolizes simple carbs and then has to look for more sugar, in the first example, that person may very well wake up in the night starving and eat again.

If you're cooking, it's very difficult. I don't cook, which makes my meal plan a little more expensive (use Freshly meal service).

But that's just knowing myself. I know if I had to cook on my schedule I wouldn't stick to it.

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It's amazing the difference in satiation that different meals can provide; while all being similar in caloric intake, cost, and effort.

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i know i've been off the wagon, but i know what i'm supposed to do and just stop for periods of time

ignoring carbs, proteins, etc...satiation is the key. it just so happens that refined carbs offer almost 0 satiation

if you just get people to stop snacking and eating after like 7-8, you'll see great work. that requires satiation

i haven't read this thread, just posted in it to let y'all know i'm heading to popeyes for lunch.

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i'm heading to popeyes for lunch

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Too bad its not an "all you can eat Popeyes buffet" like the one in laffy. You lose.