[galvs]

It is very simple. There are 8000 calories in 1kg of fat. If you want to lose 10 kg you'll need to burn 80,000 calories through deficit, either through diet or exercise.

Personally I find it easy to live on a strict diet and limiting alcohol intake to once every few weeks

[kranner]

Everybody who's trying to lose weight knows it is about sustaining a calorie deficit. The problem is how.

[galvs]

Pick any number of options!

[kranner]

There goes that simplicity then. How do you pick one? How do you stay on it? How do you decide whether to switch, when to switch and what to switch to? How do you motivate yourself to try again once you've failed? And on it goes.

[galvs]

How do you pick any activity that encourages you to burn more calories than usual?

I would expect that comes down to finding something you enjoy doing.

Exercise and eating well is a way of life. If your life dictates you do neither, you will get fat. I don't really understand how its complicated. You just do it for the benefits.

Personally I eat chicken and veg 5 days a week (with occasional carbs when I train), train for 3 days and climb once a week. I also mostly hit my 10k steps per day.

[kranner]

I mean this respectfully. Think about it this way:

If there's an obvious solution that so many people are having trouble implementing, what is more likely?

1. That all those people are stupid or have no willpower, or 2. that the obvious solution doesn't work for everyone?

[galvs]

They have no willpower. You are the only person who controls what you eat everyday. If you are in stuck in an office you need to block out time for exercise.

How can there be any other excuse?

I know people who look great and eat entire cakes each day but they do 4 hours of high intensity exercise everyday. I can't do that as I am fundamentally lazy and only exercise/diet for vanity.

[sridca]

No the problem is gluttony. Why do we complicate this so much?