| I have no personal animosity toward you, but I've heard all this many times, so I'll respond accordingly. >I've been on a diet since I was 12 years old, and am now approaching 50. I've lost and regained the same 60lbs about 4 times now You can lose weight by crash dieting, which does not prove much. The first thing that comes to mind for people is simply: "I'll just eat very little and lose weight." It even works, but people quickly get results; it makes them miserable, and they gain it back. People get stuck between "eating too little" and "binge eating". >I have logged every bite that goes into my mouth, and lived with a constant hunger for as long as I could take it This proves you are sincere in calorie tracking, but it doesn't tell us much about what kind of deficit you were in. What were your maintenance calories, and how did you calculate them? What kind of deficit did you run over what time period? In my experience, while people know all these things, execution still requires knowing all the "gotchas". Going from 2700kcal calories to 1000kcal a day diet will make anyone hungry and miserable. |
In my experience, people that think they know all the "gotchas" don't really know as much as they think they do.
Knowing fat is calorie dense is great. Without context one would attempt to try to cut it out of your diet almost entirely. Sort of like what literally happened with the food industry in the 80's/90's and 00's.
But then they would wonder why they are so hungry and likely consuming more sugars. Which is even worse for most folks due to glycemic index and how that interacts with hunger.
A little bit of knowledge can be actively harmful. Common sense on this topic actually does far better than most who think they know better. Almost everyone knows what "healthy food" looks like without needing to know anything about much else. Education is not the issue.