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  • FitandFab33
    FitandFab33 Posts: 718 Member
    Great article with one exception...

    "Eat what makes you happy"

    Food cannot make you happy. Don't eat to make you happy, because you'll be eating forever, always looking for that one magical bite that will bring you "happiness". He shouldn't have crossed the scientific plain into the psychological one with that one, presumably simple, statement.

    Eat foods you enjoy.. but don't look to food for happiness.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    Has anyone tried the Snake Oil diet? Supposedly, the oil causes your body to automatically go into something called 'calorie deficit' without any need to change what you eat or how much you exercise!!

    Great article. Thanks for posting it!!

    i hear that just makes you go into starvation mode...
  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    Great read..:drinker:
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    Great article with one exception...

    "Eat what makes you happy"

    Food cannot make you happy. Don't eat to make you happy, because you'll be eating forever, always looking for that one magical bite that will bring you "happiness". He shouldn't have crossed the scientific plain into the psychological one with that one, presumably simple, statement.

    Eat foods you enjoy.. but don't look to food for happiness.

    I think you are taking the words too literally there.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Interesting.

    (Armi Legge? Isn't he Dave Asprey's sidekick? That's kind of surprising that he would write that.)
  • FitandFab33
    FitandFab33 Posts: 718 Member
    Great article with one exception...

    "Eat what makes you happy"

    Food cannot make you happy. Don't eat to make you happy, because you'll be eating forever, always looking for that one magical bite that will bring you "happiness". He shouldn't have crossed the scientific plain into the psychological one with that one, presumably simple, statement.

    Eat foods you enjoy.. but don't look to food for happiness.

    I think you are taking the words too literally there.

    The psychological ties to food patterns and consumption (coping mechanisms, anxiety response, companion/social eating) are a huge factor in weight status and disordered eating. They should be treated as such... so yes, in the interest of the simplicity that the author himself is seeking to promote, I took his words literally. I think he should have selected his words more carefully. But.. semantics. Still a great article. Wow- I'm THAT poster, eh?

    I'm a huge supporter of treating the psychology behind the eating patterns and habits that led to overweight/obesity, and even undernourishment, in the first place. When the "how" and the "why" line up.. that's when we get somewhere, so yeah, I'm probably hypersensitive.
  • NicoleisQuantized
    NicoleisQuantized Posts: 344 Member
    Fantastic read!
  • teresab101
    teresab101 Posts: 56 Member
    Bump
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    Awesome article. Agree with it 100%.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    “You need to reprogram your genes for weight loss.”

    someone once told me this in person. with a straight face. i laughed and marveled at their ability to change thousands of years of evolution based on a few meals.
  • 32thirtytwo
    32thirtytwo Posts: 19
    Good stuff. Thanks for the posting.
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    So. Much. Love.
  • CoraGregoryCPA
    CoraGregoryCPA Posts: 1,087 Member
    So are you against the "famous" road map? I'm not buying it.. I gained a good amount of weight.. starting over.. what fun that is!

    Calorie defiicit is the way... why are so many people trying to fight it?
  • Crochetluvr
    Crochetluvr Posts: 3,284 Member
    "..... ignore what doesn’t work, find what does, and spend your time and energy on the latter."

    The most important sentence in the entire article....because what works for one may not work for another.
  • CoraGregoryCPA
    CoraGregoryCPA Posts: 1,087 Member
    Or Maintaing
    Absolutely agree with everything in the blog post.





    (But haaaaaaaaaate to pull out the grammar card on the "article" - they couldn't skim and edit before posting? It's always hard to fully take an article seriously with simple mistakes such as your/you're.)
  • lh1626
    lh1626 Posts: 241 Member
    Bump
  • Erica_theRedhead
    Erica_theRedhead Posts: 724 Member
    A majority of ppl on this site have good intentions but get severely distracted by all the crap out there. This should be required reading for all. My go to explination I share about weight loss is that it's not easy, but it's simple.

    *edited to fix one of the horrid grammar mistakes lol
  • schreck44
    schreck44 Posts: 5
    That was perfect!!!
  • mtc5995
    mtc5995 Posts: 44 Member
    Thanks for posting link. Good read. Sometimes its good to hear or read that what a person is doing is right.
  • 1tiamat
    1tiamat Posts: 138 Member
    burn more, eat less, don't listen to nutritional salespeople. Got it.
  • rodow
    rodow Posts: 26
    Awesome! Thanks
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Wonderful
  • purpleridinghorse
    purpleridinghorse Posts: 4
    awesome read!
  • schaskes
    schaskes Posts: 103 Member
    bump
  • Proyecto_AN
    Proyecto_AN Posts: 387
    Great.
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    So are you against the "famous" road map? I'm not buying it.. I gained a good amount of weight.. starting over.. what fun that is!

    Calorie defiicit is the way... why are so many people trying to fight it?

    Not answering for the OP here, but all the roadmap is really, are directions to an online calculator (fat2fitradio) to work out an intake level that includes, in theory, a deficit - plus explanations of how to over-ride the MFP settings for calorie and macro targets (at least that is my read of it). It is saying the same thing in theory as the article - eat at a caloric deficit. The issue comes when there are factors that mean that the online calculators, for whatever reason, are not representative of an individuals TDEE (which will pretty much be very often when people are eating at a caloric deficit for a while).
  • wozniaks
    wozniaks Posts: 72 Member
    Cool
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    So are you against the "famous" road map? I'm not buying it.. I gained a good amount of weight.. starting over.. what fun that is!

    Calorie defiicit is the way... why are so many people trying to fight it?

    Not answering for the OP here, but all the roadmap is really, are directions to an online calculator (fat2fitradio) to work out an intake level that includes, in theory, a deficit - plus explanations of how to over-ride the MFP settings for calorie and macro targets (at least that is my read of it). It is saying the same thing in theory as the article - eat at a caloric deficit. The issue comes when there are factors that mean that the online calculators, for whatever reason, are not representative of an individuals TDEE (which will pretty much be very often when people are eating at a caloric deficit for a while).

    You can answer for the OP in this case.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Exactly. Plain and simple.
  • carolemack
    carolemack Posts: 1,276 Member
    Brilliantly simple...and true!

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