I have been working on losing weight for a long time and I’m starting to think that obesity comes from a combination of:
Poor eating habits, often ingrained in you as you are young, consisting of:
lack of the ability to determine when you have achieved satiation from eating and instead relying on feeling “stuffed”
Psychological compulsion to finish all of your food
The concept of “comfort food” that you feel you should eat when you are feeling sad
having been mentally trained to associate “extreme flavor” with “good food”
and all of that combined with:
junk food being fast, cheap, flavorful, and ever-present
Modern food, especially the pre-prepared types, being very nutritionally deficient when compared to their predecessors of even 70 years ago, thanks to the advent of fertilizers and industrial farming techniques that emphasize caloric output over nutritional output
Modern diets leaning into high sugar and low protein and fat
overly processed wheat that simply create texture and fast digesting sugary carbohydrates
The process that I am currently working on to lose the rest of my excess weight is to focus on lower carbohydrates or non-wheat carbohydrates.
Adding bulk with fresh or raw vegetables that are low in calorie and high in mass, and mentally training myself to leave food on the plate as part of my regular practice when eating, or to prepare less than what I mentally assume is a regular serving of food knowing that should I actually be hungry, I can prepare more food.
I do my best to not eat fast food, and I try to minimize the amount of pre-prepared food items that I eat.
It is slow going, but I am not living in hunger and apathy, and I have lost 15 pounds in the last four months without making any extreme changes to my diet.
Genes are a gigantic part of it. I know people who cannot lost weight while being active and at less than 800kcal per day, and others who can sit all day long and eat ~3000-5000kcal and not gain anything.
Overeating can cause weight gain, but there’s a lot of people who overeat without gaining weight, and others who eat little and still are overweight.
People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them. And a billion that are not known.
Telling people to have healthy habits is good.
Telling overweight people, specifically, that they need to improve their habits is discriminatory and serves no purpose other than to dismiss health issues that push weight gain.
Fatphobia stems from a centuries-old view of overweight people as the “evil rich lazy politicians”. Now, the rich ones are the most skinny, muscular ones, because it’s actually hard to be reliably “healthy” (I do not count those as actually healthy, but well) without a shitton of money. As a result, people with weight issues are generally not rich and whatnot. We’re not in the middle ages anymore and maybe it would be time to adapt the views on weight to the current reality of science and society.
People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them.
Genetics affects how the caloric intake is handled. It does not change the fact that adjusting caloric intake will directly adjust how much weight is even possible to gain.
Studies concluded that the presence of these genes increases the risk of obesity but does not necessitate obesity. This risk can be ameliorated by healthy food choices, increased physical activity and avoiding other causes of obesity mentioned in this review.
A slightly more accurate phrase is “calories burned vs calories consumed”.
You can’t just trust an online BMR calculator to tell you how much food you can eat every day. You have to actually test and know what your metabolism is like, and you can do that for fifty to eighty dollars at a DEXA scan place.
If you don’t know how much your body is burning, then how can you accurately gauge what is the right amount of food to eat to meet your physical shape goals?
Theres also an innate (probably genetic?) component to obesity. I went through some very very lean years as a youngin, and ive never been truly skinny. My whole family is pretty big, even though half of them eat fairly well and are quite active.
I have been working on losing weight for a long time and I’m starting to think that obesity comes from a combination of:
Poor eating habits, often ingrained in you as you are young, consisting of:
lack of the ability to determine when you have achieved satiation from eating and instead relying on feeling “stuffed”
Psychological compulsion to finish all of your food
The concept of “comfort food” that you feel you should eat when you are feeling sad
having been mentally trained to associate “extreme flavor” with “good food”
and all of that combined with:
junk food being fast, cheap, flavorful, and ever-present
Modern food, especially the pre-prepared types, being very nutritionally deficient when compared to their predecessors of even 70 years ago, thanks to the advent of fertilizers and industrial farming techniques that emphasize caloric output over nutritional output
Modern diets leaning into high sugar and low protein and fat
overly processed wheat that simply create texture and fast digesting sugary carbohydrates
The process that I am currently working on to lose the rest of my excess weight is to focus on lower carbohydrates or non-wheat carbohydrates.
Adding bulk with fresh or raw vegetables that are low in calorie and high in mass, and mentally training myself to leave food on the plate as part of my regular practice when eating, or to prepare less than what I mentally assume is a regular serving of food knowing that should I actually be hungry, I can prepare more food.
I do my best to not eat fast food, and I try to minimize the amount of pre-prepared food items that I eat.
It is slow going, but I am not living in hunger and apathy, and I have lost 15 pounds in the last four months without making any extreme changes to my diet.
How cheap and easy to cook low quality food is, is definitely something that doesn’t help.
Frozen foods that can be fried up very quickly make it very easy to eat too much low quality food.
Genes are a gigantic part of it. I know people who cannot lost weight while being active and at less than 800kcal per day, and others who can sit all day long and eat ~3000-5000kcal and not gain anything.
Overeating can cause weight gain, but there’s a lot of people who overeat without gaining weight, and others who eat little and still are overweight.
People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them. And a billion that are not known.
Telling people to have healthy habits is good. Telling overweight people, specifically, that they need to improve their habits is discriminatory and serves no purpose other than to dismiss health issues that push weight gain.
Fatphobia stems from a centuries-old view of overweight people as the “evil rich lazy politicians”. Now, the rich ones are the most skinny, muscular ones, because it’s actually hard to be reliably “healthy” (I do not count those as actually healthy, but well) without a shitton of money. As a result, people with weight issues are generally not rich and whatnot. We’re not in the middle ages anymore and maybe it would be time to adapt the views on weight to the current reality of science and society.
Genetics affects how the caloric intake is handled. It does not change the fact that adjusting caloric intake will directly adjust how much weight is even possible to gain.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147021182404572X
A slightly more accurate phrase is “calories burned vs calories consumed”.
You can’t just trust an online BMR calculator to tell you how much food you can eat every day. You have to actually test and know what your metabolism is like, and you can do that for fifty to eighty dollars at a DEXA scan place.
If you don’t know how much your body is burning, then how can you accurately gauge what is the right amount of food to eat to meet your physical shape goals?
What absolute nonsense, of course overeating will cause you to lose weight.
Theres also an innate (probably genetic?) component to obesity. I went through some very very lean years as a youngin, and ive never been truly skinny. My whole family is pretty big, even though half of them eat fairly well and are quite active.
Weird how genetics is left out of this.
Fuck me for having PCOS I guess.