You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds (www.npr.org)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

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 😁

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The top definition of simple is as an adjective and it's:

easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty

While you likely meant it in the exclamation form:

used to convey that something is very straightforward

Straightforward would probably be a better synonym of simple to use in this instance.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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.

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