| I agree with you, but have a few qualifiers about it. I decided I want to lose weight for the third time in my life. A few weeks I was probably eating 5,000 calories a day. I’ve lost 15 pounds in three weeks. Basically before every day I’d eat and eat and never ever feel full. My stomach would hurt, I’d throw up every day, I felt tired and shitty every single day. Now I can barely managed to eat 1400 calories a day. I’m eating red meat and kimchi, basically. That’s my diet. Once a week I’ll crave a nice big salad with mushrooms and olives and ranch dressing. I feel great. If I try to exceed that calorie amount I’ll feel super satiated (not full, like physically full) and stop mid bite, and save the rest for later. It feels like a long dormant part of my mind that controls calorie intake suddenly has a voice again and that voice has been drowned out for years. So I mean it’s easy to say “it’s just calories”, but why when I eat a standard American diet am I craving thousands of extra calories per day and that stops when I eat like this? Even stranger, why do I relapse into these habits when I eat even a small amount of food like French fries or ice cream, over and over again? I know precisely why I’m fat, exactly what to do to lose weight, it’s not even difficult, but unless I have a very strong motivation to lose it I just don’t. Most people don’t even have the requisite knowledge of how to deal with hunger cravings and get themselves in a state where they’re losing at all. They’ll eat chicken breast and a salad with no dressing then wonder why they feel awful because they’re not getting nourishment, then binge on ice cream. So how is the average person supposed to lose weight? |