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Put an affirmation message on your refrigerator that says, "Remember that you are a fat, disgusting pig."
Affirmations are things you say to alter your mindset. This "affirmation" would actually enforce your belief that you are fat and disgusting, and probably lead you to eat more.
Obesity is the first enemy of everyone dealing with it. In process to shed those extra kilos, you don’t have to indulge in life threatening methods anyway. Just switch to vitamins for weight loss that will boost your metabolism which induces the tendency to lose weight.
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I mean, that's probably not at all life threatening, something that kicks up your heart rate without exercise simple as a means to trim down.
When it comes to weight loss, ignore anyone who starts off by saying "just..." For example, just eat fewer calories. Or, just exercise more. Losing excess fat isn't complicated, but there's a tendency for people to try and oversimplify it. If it were simple, we wouldn't have so many overweight people. If it were simple, so many people who try to lose weight and keep it off wouldn't fail.
When it comes to weight loss, ignore anyone who starts off by saying "just..." For example, just eat fewer calories. Or, just exercise more. Losing excess fat isn't complicated, but there's a tendency for people to try and oversimplify it. If it were simple, we wouldn't have so many overweight people. If it were simple, so many people who try to lose weight and keep it off wouldn't fail.
It is incredibly simple in theory, its terribly hard to execute.
Actually it's not hard to execute. The problem is most people are just badly misinformed about what to do.
Not true at all. What makes it difficult? To learn to not eat junk food and overeat? To focus on fresh foods? To not eat to much sugar or processed foods? That information is EVERYWHERE. Its not a secret. What is hard is to making the sacrifices and following through. If the execution part was easy there would not be so many overweight people.
Actually it's not hard to execute. The problem is most people are just badly misinformed about what to do.
Some people really don't. Most people, especially here, know perfectly well how to do it. They just don't want to. I mean, I'm sympathetic with them to a point. Losing weight isn't fun. Stuffing your face full of delicious food is fun.
A good analogy is weight lifting. Like losing weight, it's a simple thing to do. Both are not complex but both the nutrition world and sports worlds are full of people trying to make something that's really very simple complicated. They require dedication and consistency. Obsessing over this type of food or that type of food or eating five meals a day or intermittent fasting, high fat/low carb, paleo, vegan, raw, fruitarian, sumo or regular deadlifts... that's the cart. Nothing wrong with experimenting with which cart works best for you, but if you don't have the dedication and consistency the cart isn't even relevant. Paleo won't magically make you lose weight. Twinkies won't magically make you gain weight. Both Paleo and Twinkie diets work for weight loss.
The problem at the end of the day is simply that most people aren't willing to put in the work. They're not struggling to make gains because their workout routine isn't perfect. They're struggling to make gains because they aren't doing the workouts. They're not struggling to lose weight because raw vegan is the magical diet they haven't discovered that will let them lose weight and they're eating, maybe halfheartedly, a paleo diet. They're struggling to lose weight because they aren't sticking to their diet because they'd rather eat that pastry when they get their morning coffee, potato chips from the vending machine in the afternoon, and a glass of wine after a hard day of work.... which is fine. You can eat all that junk food as long as you factor it into your diet. It just needs to replace real food rather than be in addition to and in the longer term it's not healthy as there's very little nutrition in pastries, potato chips, or wine so if you're eating 600-700 calories of junk food that doesn't leave much room for real food. Like the Twinkie diet, however, it's still completely possible to lose weight even if half or three quarters of your caloric intake is junk food.
Last edited by Malloric; 08-24-2017 at 11:38 AM..
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