it’s really not, you can make it more nuanced but it’s really as simple as eating different and less.
I have personally lost 40lbs by eating different. no physical activity changes, only food. I stopped eating carbs and sugar. i essentially went keto and within 5 mo ths, 40 lbs vanished. I went from. a 41 pant to a 34/36 and shirts went from XL to M/L.
There was another comment I replied to earlier that summed it up pretty well, so I’m just going to paste it here.
Of course it’s that simple. It always was. Purely technically speaking. Reduce calories in whatever way and probably even exercise to some degree. No magic needed.
It’s just not that easy for everybody equally. Some just can’t regulate themselves well, some take drugs that fuck your weight up even if you’d just eat a slice of bread daily, some can’t exercise at all, some are too poor to buy non-shitty foods (especially in horrible food-anarchy-countries like the US where sugar is legion), and some simply don’t know better or don’t understand.
You saying “is it really that easy?” Is survivorship-bias. You succeeded where millions(?) fail. But congrats anyway 😁
I never said easy, I said it’s simple. simple things can still be difficult to achieve and maintaining it is even more difficult, but it’s still a simple thing of eating less, and not eating carbs // sugar to get energy.
some take drugs that fuck your weight up even if you’d just eat a slice of bread daily
Drugs can’t violate the laws of physics. If you eat nothing but a slice of bread daily and you’re overweight, you can’t not lose weight.
What a drug can do it is influence your brain/cravings/etc. so that you’re more/less likely to eat X amount, and that in turn makes you gain/lose weight.
The opposite is also true, such as in the case of GLP-1 inhibitors. But these drugs come with unwanted side effects, and there seems to be a rebound once one stops taking the drug. This discussion already is highly nuanced! So perhaps it’s not as simple as counting calories, after all.
Of course, you’re right, I edited my comment to reflect that.
Ultimately my point is, drugs can ‘influence’ you into eating more/less, but they definitely can’t prevent you from losing weight while starving yourself.
Generally speaking though, it’s very difficult to starve yourself since your body wants to maintain homeostasis. I don’t think that’s a good way to lose weight, even if it’s for the sake of better health.
it’s really not, you can make it more nuanced but it’s really as simple as eating different and less.
I have personally lost 40lbs by eating different. no physical activity changes, only food. I stopped eating carbs and sugar. i essentially went keto and within 5 mo ths, 40 lbs vanished. I went from. a 41 pant to a 34/36 and shirts went from XL to M/L.
Specifying carbs and sugar is already bringing more nuance than just “calories in, calories out”.
There was another comment I replied to earlier that summed it up pretty well, so I’m just going to paste it here.
I never said easy, I said it’s simple. simple things can still be difficult to achieve and maintaining it is even more difficult, but it’s still a simple thing of eating less, and not eating carbs // sugar to get energy.
The top definition of simple is as an adjective and it’s:
While you likely meant it in the exclamation form:
Straightforward would probably be a better synonym of simple to use in this instance.
Drugs can’t violate the laws of physics. If you eat nothing but a slice of bread daily and you’re overweight, you can’t not lose weight.
What a drug can do it is influence your brain/cravings/etc. so that you’re more/less likely to eat X amount, and that in turn makes you gain/lose weight.
The opposite is also true, such as in the case of GLP-1 inhibitors. But these drugs come with unwanted side effects, and there seems to be a rebound once one stops taking the drug. This discussion already is highly nuanced! So perhaps it’s not as simple as counting calories, after all.
Of course, you’re right, I edited my comment to reflect that.
Ultimately my point is, drugs can ‘influence’ you into eating more/less, but they definitely can’t prevent you from losing weight while starving yourself.
Generally speaking though, it’s very difficult to starve yourself since your body wants to maintain homeostasis. I don’t think that’s a good way to lose weight, even if it’s for the sake of better health.