What nobody tells you about losing weight

SkezzaShredder wrote: »

Wicked_Seraph wrote: »

SkezzaShredder wrote: »

That fundamentally, a diet starts with knowledge and research, not f***ing pseudo-science. One of the hardest parts of getting into the diet I am in (which is really delivering results so far) is that I simply didn't have a good diet plan, I didn't know what foods to avoid, I didn't know what foods to eat, and I didn't know what time of the day to eat them. When I talk about pseudo-science, I'm talking about those who believe weight loss can be solved with 'emotions' and 'psychology', like my mum was a great example of this. She used to say "what causes you to eat badly? Is it stress from work? Do you eat because you're unhappy?"..... "errr, no, it's because I genuinely have no idea what I should be eating". I understand that food addictions can be caused by emotions and what not, but ultimately, pseudo-science and psychology only really helps with the very few. A great many people don't lose weight, because they simply don't know how too.

Eventually, I spent about an hour talking to a guy at work who was very overweight as a young adult, and lost a lot of weight using a low GI diet and lots of discipline. I started to follow his diet, his recommendations, low and behold, the weight is falling off me. Knowledge, research and desire, that's all you need.

I wouldn't be so quick to knock psychology and emotions when it comes to eating.

I knew the correct foods to eat. I just didn't eat them. I ate to deal with stress, negative feelings, and so on. I'm glad you've never experienced this problem yourself, but some of us have. In fact, learning to recognize WHY I ate the way I did was ultimately what helped me change my eating habits.

As I said, I am not failing to acknowledge them, but I am pointing out that (imo) a lot of people who do eat poorly do so because they lack the knowledge. I believe psychological and emotional eaters are representing perhaps a smaller minority. A lot of people eat poorly, simply because they don't know how to eat well.

beautifulwarrior18 wrote: »

thereshegoesagain wrote: »

That my heels would heal. 90 pounds ago, my heels use to always be cracked and painful. I chalked it up to dry skin. I just noticed that I no longer have that problem. I guess carrying all that extra weight took its toll on my back, knees and all the way down to my heels.

Probably cleared up more so because of your diet than your weight.