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The myth of calories in calories out and why this does not sustain long term weight loss
and may even be detrimental to those seeking to conquer their own obesity.
We have all heard this at some stage right? Weight loss isnt rocket science, you just need to
consume less calories than you burn and you will inevitably lose weight, its all about will power,
fat people just have no will power. Heres the proof, the "experts" proclaim, no fat people came out
of the German concentration camps where they were all forced to consume minimal calories and burn
more than they consumed. We all know people who constantly struggle with their obesity, it may
even be us, people who are on diet after calorie restricting diet. They lose a few kilos, maybe
even slim right down but the weight goes right back on, sometimes within weeks , sometimes within
years, but go back on inevitably it does. The weight loss industry promoting these diets is worth
around a billion dollars a year in Australia alone and climbing every year, this is the financial proof
that these diets dont work, if these diets did sustain long term weight loss in the obese then the
weight loss industry would be slowly losing money, the opposite is occurring, increasingly
desperate obese people are spending an increasing amount of money on these diets which just dont work
and obesity is increasing. The problem with consuming less calories than you burn is that we all dont live
in German concentration camps, food is all around us, freely available with no restrictions, there is no
one forcing us into slave labor at gunpoint and enforcing starvation conditions, it actually takes
an enormous amount of will power to consume less calories than you burn every day because you will always be hungry,
hunger for the majority of us is actually our bodies telling us we need to start consuming food, its a system that served
us well for half a million years us and still does under the right circumstances. So why, all of a sudden for the last
hundred years or so do some experts think our bodies hav e evolved to somehow develop a different way of doing things,
the answer is that they havent. Also What happens when we reach our ideal weight?
Do we continue to starve ourselves or do we then revert to our former eating habits? If the former, we slowly lose
weight until we die, if the latter we slowly (or quickly) put the weight right back on, so how do we then sustain our ideal weight?
This would involve exactly balancing calorie intake with calorie burn, this is of course, impossible. Which is why
the vast majority of people who lose large amounts of weight end up putting it back on, plus more.
There is also another problem with this theory, did ancient hunter gatherers use it? Of course they didnt and yet they
all managed to stay lean without the lifestyle illnesses prevalent in modern society, we know this because we have remnants
of ancient hunter gather groups living in current society which we are able to study. No wonder the diet industry is worth a
billion dollars a year in this country, they are selling a crock which not only doesnt work but which the so called experts
have convinced the public should work if only the had the will power. What a crock, huge money making crock.
In the next bit of this essay I will cover the myth of the link between obesity and sedentary lifestyle and how to make
dietary changes permanently to conquer obesity. I am prepared to share my accumulated knowledge with OZPOL readers but
any outright trolling or thread denigration and I wont post any more about this.
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