This is worth a read.
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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.0 -
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...0 -
Great read..:drinker:0
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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.0 -
Interesting.
(Armi Legge? Isn't he Dave Asprey's sidekick? That's kind of surprising that he would write that.)0 -
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.0 -
Fantastic read!0
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Awesome article. Agree with it 100%.0
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“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.0 -
Good stuff. Thanks for the posting.0
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So. Much. Love.0
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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?0 -
"..... 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.0 -
Or MaintaingAbsolutely 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.)0 -
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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 lol0 -
That was perfect!!!0
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Thanks for posting link. Good read. Sometimes its good to hear or read that what a person is doing is right.0
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burn more, eat less, don't listen to nutritional salespeople. Got it.0
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Awesome! Thanks0
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Wonderful0
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awesome read!0
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Great.0
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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).0 -
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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.0 -
Exactly. Plain and simple.0
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Brilliantly simple...and true!0
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