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That brings up the idea of why someone wants to lose weight. Is it to be as small as possible or is it to be healthy? Because starving yourself or giving yourself an eating disorder isn't healthy. Training yourself to be obsessive or compulsive around food and the number on the scale isn't healthy. Using exercise as punishment or to "earn" your food isn't healthy.
Or eating emotionally. I remember once reading "don't eat when you are angry" and after that, I realized I was doing exactly that. I would get annoyed or angry about something, even online, and get up and go to the kitchen. Becoming mindful that I was doing that made me stop doing it.
Yep. I have ADHD and was diagnosed later in life, and one of the common traits is eating for stimulation. Your brain needs a dopamine hit, and ooh, that food will do the trick. Once I learned about that, I could be kinder to myself, that it wasn't about me not having willpower or discipline. So now when I feel that flash of boredom or need for novelty I can redirect it, or at least intentionally make wiser choices.
There was an article recently (Washington Post, if I recall) about a weight loss study where they had two groups of people. Both groups were on a restricted diet. One group also exercised (combination of weight lifting, cardio and high intensity interval training under the instruction of personal trainers) and the other group did no exercise. They lost the same amount of weight after 6 months. The exercisers did benefit with improved blood measurements (cholesterol, triglycerides, BP, etc.) but the weight loss was near identical.
As a person who has had weight struggles all my life and who is a dedicated exerciser, I found that so interesting.
The article is correct is some ways because most people who are overweight just needs to fix their health and their diet. Exercise isn’t for weight loss but for strength and physical fitness. Weight loss happens when the body can efficiently utilize the nutrients and get rid of excess food. That’s where the problem lies that Americans continues to eat a diet high in processed foods and heavy on proteins and carbs that requires a lot of energy to digest properly. People keep eating processed foods and it’s difficult for the body to process and digest the foods. Not to mention so many Americans eat so much dead foods that doesn’t promote probiotics the stomach lacks good bio diversity. The body needs microbes to help digestion.
So the OP is not gonna be able to lose weight without eating healthy natural foods.
All I hear and see is people who continues to eat processed “healthy” foods and can’t lose weight. Stuff like low fat yogurt is full of sugar how is that healthy?
Salads full of sugar dressings and crutons aren’t healthy.
Or people who just thinks eating carivore diet but eating bbq isn’t healthy at all.
So much foods with hidden sugars and other bad substances like preservatives.
Weight loss is really easy, the body doesn’t like to keep the weight on but you have to stop putting in bad stuff for the body to digest.
All I hear and see is people who continues to eat processed “healthy” foods and can’t lose weight. Stuff like low fat yogurt is full of sugar how is that healthy?
Salads full of sugar dressings and crutons aren’t healthy.
Or people who just thinks eating carivore diet but eating bbq isn’t healthy at all.
So much foods with hidden sugars and other bad substances like preservatives.
Weight loss is really easy, the body doesn’t like to keep the weight on but you have to stop putting in bad stuff for the body to digest.
Oh, I don't know at all about the body ( at least my body), not liking to keep weight on if given half a chance to do so. All my life, at least once I reached adulthood, every gram I've ever shed has fought me tooth and nail to stay right where it is before it gave up and finally left. I've never found weight loss an easy, or quick process, but a process that occurs slowly, sometimes frustratingly slllllloooowwww, over time. And that's with the eat right, calorie in- calorie out and exercise lifestyle.... at least for me. Easy weight loss, my arrrsh.......
Oh, I don't know at all about the body ( at least my body), not liking to keep weight on if given half a chance to do so. All my life, at least once I reached adulthood, every gram I've ever shed has fought me tooth and nail to stay right where it is before it gave up and finally left. I've never found weight loss an easy, or quick process, but a process that occurs slowly, sometimes frustratingly slllllloooowwww, over time. And that's with the eat right, calorie in- calorie out and exercise lifestyle.... at least for me. Easy weight loss, my arrrsh.......
1% of your body weight per week is the fastest you should lose the weight. That prevents muscle loss. For some that’s frustratingly slow. But you probably didn’t pack on the weight overnight so you cannot expect to lose it overnight either.
There is no one-size-fits-all way to lose weight, because there are so many factors that can determine an individual’s weight (emphasis on “individual”), including genetics, medications, physical condition of the body (think arthritis, among other issues), as well as what and how much is consumed.
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