[EasyMark]

Yeah this prickles my hackles too. It took a fairly high dosage of zepbound and many months for me to get to a normal set of eating habits after a couple of decades of bad, but a prediabetes scare surprise on my labs pushed me into the program, but I would not have done it by "white knuckling". I needed some medication to help me along. All these people just saying "calories in and calories out" "just start exercising dude" are making a complex issue into a "simple solution" that almost never works because change takes time; a lot of time that many people don't feel on a deep level that they have to apply to it. So, they just give up after a couple of weeks of "grit" and "will-power". Isn't it like maybe 1-3% succeed over time, while the rest fail when trying to lose significant weight or other health issues that could be resolved with habit only?

[calenti]

To me the terms mix and it helps to separate the things that are externally manageable from the things that are not. The physical is complex but straightforward - the body biochemistry operates on material in, biochemistry mix, expenditure out. The brain is physical - neurons, pathways, etc. The mind, OTOH, is a virtual little candle isolated in a prison of meat and bone trying to understand how to interact with the world around it. External forces can alter the body and brain, but only the mind can change the mind. And does, in ways that are very difficult to control because the sole operator is part of the mechanism. People who try to change on their own and can't aren't failing or weak, it's just really f-ing hard.