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...overweight guy can choose to eat healthy, eat less, deal with feeling hungry....
....you are limiting your remarks to people who who try hard to lose weight, eat right, and exercise, that is a small percentage of the overweight people...
.... my point has been that when you respond to a conversation about how to lose weight by essentially saying overweight people do everything right but are all afflicted with a condition that prevents them from losing weight, you are enabling poor eating habits and dismissing reality .....
I don't have whatever metabolism issue you seem to be applying to every overweight person in America but I guarantee you if I spent a year eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted I would gain 100 lbs.
" overweight guy can choose to eat healthy, eat less, deal with feeling hungry"
millions and millions of people do this all the time and still can not lose weight.
Ask anyone of them who go to one of these diet work shops and eventually fail.
"you are limiting your remarks to people who who try hard to lose weight, eat right, and exercise, that is a small percentage of the overweight people"
Really? Like the millions of people who are on diets and exercise programs who fail year after year.
Oh wait ... they choose to stop eating right after months of not seeing much if any progress and
feeling hungry all the time. I just wonder how long you would stay on a diet if you had a weight
problem and didn't see any significant improvement???
You just belittle people saying they can't stick to a healthy diet and accuse them of lack of will power
and determination. If you could just walk in the shoes of some of these millions and millions of people
who have tried everything to lose wait weight year after year but eventually fail then maybe then you
might have some compassion and a willingness to consider there is something more going on than just
eating right and exercising.
my point has been that when you respond to a conversation about how to lose weight by essentially saying overweight people do everything right but are all afflicted with a condition that prevents them from losing weight, you are enabling poor eating habits and dismissing reality.
First, it is not ALL overweight people I am talking about. Said that back many posts ago. It is the
millions and millions of people who try to eat right and exercise but do not get the results they want
and after months of trying give up. This is not a small percentage this the American dieter
that attempts to diet( eat right) an average of 4 times a year.
"I don't have whatever metabolism issue you seem to be applying to every overweight person in America but I guarantee you if I spent a year eating whatever I wanted whenever I wanted I would gain 100 lbs"
Probably ... but not necessarily. there are people who do eat what ever they want and don't become
over weight. Now they don't stuff themselves just to prove a point. They eat whatever they want and stop eating when they feel they've had enough. These people do not have a metabolic disorder.
Bottom line Andy, you just do not know about new scientific research on this topic so you think in old
ways -- calories in vs calories out , will power, determination, eat right and exercise.
This is wrong thinking when applied to millions and millions of people who are on this path every day
but failing because of a metabolic issue.