Few understand that what you eat affects how much you “burn”. Thinking only about how much you eat is not always sufficient. You can continue to eat less but if your metabolism down regulates and “burns” less calories as a result you won’t see a difference. Becoming metabolically healthy and increasing basal metabolic rate by increasing muscle mass is a better advice than simply to eat less, even tho the latter can be effective in many cases
This has actually been discredited in recent years.
It’s not wrong in the strictest sense, but the macronutrient makeup of the caloric energy has a ton of bearing on how your body processes it (or doesn’t).
The data seems to show that insulin sensitive (healthy) people can lose weight in a simple calorie deficit, but insulin resistant (sick) people can’t. In order to lose weight, these people need to specifically cut carbs and get their body’s insulin response back in order.
In other words the simple, common sense approach that works for you actually won’t work for the fat, sick, unhappy, diabetic people you’re disgusted by.
The best books on this are Brain Energy and Why We Get Sick
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Discussion
Yes exactly. Another key part of metabolism is insulin resistance which we are barely beginning to really understand as well. Also, the metabolic realities of mental health… if “count calories and have more willpower” was the solution, you wouldn’t see dramatically different rates of obesity and chronic diseases across different cultures. Why are certain populations way better off than others? It’s not calorie intakes