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Losing weight is insanely easy. You don’t need to ask experts, you don’t need a diet plan. It’s simply understanding how many calories you need as a baseline and then going into a calorie deficit. Calories in vs calories out. It’s just about discipline - most ppl love to eat, and they think giant portion sizes are normal. “You wear in public what you eat in private”

mrclownworld 2y ago

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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rand0mguest2 2y ago

Yeah broooo it’s soooo complicated actually sick ppl lose weight by eating a lot!

mrclownworld 2y ago

Sick people can lose weight eating as much cheese and meat as they want as long as they don’t eat carbs… in ketosis your body literally pisses out the excess energy as ketones instead of putting it on your body as fat but go off king

mrclownworld 2y ago

And to your point about willpower… not counting anything, just eating as much as you want to when you’re hungry (as long as it’s not carbs) is much less taxing on the willpower so it’s easier to stick to

mrclownworld 2y ago

Supplement your strongly held opinions with an actual book or two on metabolism, that’s all I’m saying

DRE 2y ago

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

mrclownworld 2y ago

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