If you liked Supersize Me, you have to watch Fat head

Loved Supersized Me! Will have to check this one out - thanks!

Found their website, looks really interesting, funny, and a lot of common sense. I have added it my instant queue on Netflix (they don't offer the DVD?).

Going to add that one. Thanks!

added to my netflix..thanks!

What the Fathead guy proved, and the Twinkie Doctor proved, is that to lose weight you have to eat less calories than you burn. Simple as that really.

Really? That is what you learned? The last month of his study he was eating less then 20 grams of carbohydrate per day, only walking as his daily exercise (no strenuous stuff) and eating 70+% of his daily calories in saturated fats. He lost weight, his cholesterol panels all continued to improve and he built muscle mass while reducing his BMI. Something else is going on besides calories in/calories out hypothesis.

Fathead was a very good movie, I've been on a documentary kick lately watching, fathead, Food INC, Food Matters, and Killer at Large.
The prevailing point of all of these movies is don't trust the FDA or government for our food choices, and don't believe everything you read. Which makes it tough to decide what is true and what isn't

What the Fathead guy proved, and the Twinkie Doctor proved, is that to lose weight you have to eat less calories than you burn. Simple as that really.

I will have to check this out. Although I wholeheartedly disagree with the calories in, calories out theory. On paper it makes sense. Burn more than you eat and you'll lose. Coming from someone who suffers from PCOS, I say that is not true. I have several things going on in my body that sabotage that on a daily basis. I think you are only burn as much as your metabolism allows, and everyone's is different. I was recently diagnosed with Diabetes, and before that I had insulin resistance thanks to my PCOS, and I know that even when I don't eat as much as I burn, I don't always lose, because even some of those less calories are not stored the way they should be because of how my body processes them. Just IMO.

That didn't go too much into his ketosis diet after the fact, he lost 12lbs watching calories.

I forgot to add, that he did eat less but his focus was on keeping his carbohydrate levels under 100 grams a day.

What the Fathead guy proved, and the Twinkie Doctor proved, is that to lose weight you have to eat less calories than you burn. Simple as that really.

Really? That is what you learned? The last month of his study he was eating less then 20 grams of carbohydrate per day, only walking as his daily exercise (no strenuous stuff) and eating 70+% of his daily calories in saturated fats. He lost weight, his cholesterol panels all continued to improve and he built muscle mass while reducing his BMI. Something else is going on besides calories in/calories out hypothesis.

I'll put it this way.

There's no doubt carbs are a factor but,
I lost over 100 lbs in 11 months eating about 250 carbs a day 6 days a week, and one day eating over 500.

Then this summer I lost another 20lbs eating 125 carbs a day, almost all of them at night 6 days a week, and one day eating over 500 again.

I also increased my muscle mass while lower BMI (if you lose weight you lower BMI)

This guy lost 27lbs in two months eating carb filled Twinkies

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

The thing they all have in common is we burned more calories that we ate.

I agree that saturated fats are wrongly blamed for many things, and we eat too many carbs overall.

The whole key is finding something that works for you, that not only is your tool to lose weight but also it must become your lifestyle, otherwise you'll gain back all the weight you lost.

I agree with most of what you said....Preach on Brother.

I just hope people are smart enough to take this for what it is and realize that he isn't promoting that fast food is healthy. He is just challenging the fact that the fast food industry is responsible for making us all fat. Basically putting the responsibility of portion control back on us. Generally speaking, most things you get at a fast food joint is not going to be a healthy choice and the foods that are prepared there are going to be far less nutritious then the same foods prepared correctly at home.

Absolutely.

It comes down to personal choice, and this is what happens in a capitalist society. Companies will give us what we want.
I am not saying it's bad but something is definitely wrong here.
Think of it this way, if everyone was healthy and in shape today, the economy would collapse tomorrow.

It's obvious that obesity is a problem, but the CDC uses BMI to tell us who is overweight and that system is messed up at best. Our foods are full of chemicals and we eat too many carbs.
I feel that the whole food vegans are partially right and the no-carb meat eaters are partially right.
Our government does want to help us, because i think most of them are good people, but if everyone is healthy the economy collapses.
They tells us to exercise not eat less. This doesn't work.
The most unhealthy foods are the cheapest foods.
As a whole we lack knowledge, when I was an overweight kid my parents had no idea of how to help me. I had to find it all out on my own, because you read one thing that works, and then another thing totally contradicts the other!
As a society, we are so deep in this crap that it has to be up to each of us individually to get ourselves out. There will never be a magic pill, it's not possible and even if there was a miracle cure, it would never see the light of day.

My motto is, find what you can live with, because everything works if your burn more than you eat.

Also-when they talked about the low-fat diets causing depression, that really connected with me. The last few weeks I've been super depressed, ever since starting on this site, watching my fats and all that. There was just so much in this movie that made sense scientifically, politically, and personally.