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I agree with you up to this point. You cannot out exercise a bad diet unless you are doing Micheal Phelps level work outs. Exercise can help, but only so much.
Dieting works only temporarily for those that treat it like a temporary thing. You cannot diet the weight off and then return to overeating and expect not to gain the weight back.
Low calorie diets do nothing to your body except provide fewer calories. If you have fat reserves, your body will use those. That’s what they are for. There was a study done on a morbidly obese man who was put on a ZERO calorie diet for a YEAR (yes, you read that right!). Nothing happened except that he lost weight.
No, it is not “now thought by researchers”. You’re talking about one study -the so called “Biggest Loser Study”, which found metabolic damage in Biggest Loser patients by way of some questionable math. I’ve addressed the math in another thread, but I’ll repost here if you’d like.
Lol no - set point theory is 100% made up. And being within the healthy weight range is hardly emaciated. For my height, 164lbs is the upper limit of healthy. I currently weigh 135 lbs and have visible fat. My parents are both obese, btw, so it isn’t genetics.
It really just takes continuous discipline. And calorie counting. I lost 80 lbs. I haven’t gained an ounce back, and it’s been several years. I won’t gain an ounce back, either, because I track my calories. 1lb = roughly 3500 calories. It’s simple math.
2/3rds of American adults are overweight. 40% of American women are obese. Average for an American is going to be borderline obese. This is not a good thing.
And it’s all BS. But I’m glad it makes you feel better about your life.
I really enjoy, Lady E, how if you’ve failed at something, it means that it is “LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for anyone else!”
Except that it isn’t. I really really didn’t want to participate in this thread any further, but everything you’ve said is just so…incorrect. It’s damaging. Really.
To all of you that are struggling to lose weight (for those of you who wish to lose weight), it is not impossible. It is not even that complicated. Calories in, calories out.
Yes, there will be times when it is very hard. When I was eating 1200 calories a day to lose, there were days that I was very unhappy. But I was never as unhappy about my diet as I was about the size of my ass.
Now, I’m a healthy weight. I count my calories to stay that weight. I’m happy. I don’t deny myself food that I want, I simply account for it.
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Wasn’t the “Biggest Loser” study, it was a whole LOT of studies. Proves you haven’t read the book, have you? Might want to try that. Which, BTW, wasn’t the only book I’ve read on such subjects. :rolleyes:
If you feel fine living on 1200 calories a day, which all competent medical authorities consider a starvation diet, well party on. Whatever.
Obviously the trade-off is “worth it” in your mind. Still doesn’t give you any right to cop a superiority trip over everyone on the planet who may weigh more for their own PERSONAL reasons. Do you “shame” folks for old age and Parkinson’s, too? :no:
OP, the bottom line is that NO ONE has any kind of right to comment on anyone else’s size or so-called “health.” If anyone commits that level of incivility, “unfriend” them in the Real World and seek out more pleasant and polite companions, like your trainer. Enjoy riding your horse!
