Re:What I learned losing 70 pounds: Medical interventions wo...
by Kye on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:24AM
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I remember essentially being hungry non-stop when I was younger. You know what finally fixed it? Resolving stressors! Or at least learning to handle them better. Learning to interrupt stressful thought patterns and replace them with neutral to positive patterns made all the difference. This is no shock to anyone who's actually studied weight issues, but the moralizing crowd still refuses to even acknowledge the science or even actual lived experiences on the subject.
There's still stuff to work on, especially: realizing how many calories are in seemingly innocuous things, how A can lead to B, and prevent C (like buying junk food->can't not eat it if it's in the house->good food doesn't taste good), how certain foods trigger worse hunger rather than resolve it, etc.
Mathematically, it may resolve to "east less," but the mechanics are much more complicated.
Sure, if everyone could count their calories with razor-sharp accuracy and eat less than they burn, everyone would be at the weight they want to be at, and nobody would need to look at pesky fat people anymore, right?
I mean, I've counted calories with MFP for the last 10 years, and I know my BMR and TDEE and all that. If I can do it, everyone can, right?
Except, ah, right, there's that one thing I forgot: not everyone is mentally wired to log everything they eat every day!
Some (many) people don't even need to log since they don't eat that much anyway (and don't want to).
Oh, and how I could forget? Some people are simply hungry ALL OF THE GOD DAMN TIME. Calorie counting doesn't make the hunger go away, either!
The one thing that many people taking GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic or Manjaro have said over and over is "I didn't know I could just not feel hungry." That is absolutely wild shit!
So, no, telling fat people that your body is a thermodynamic system (it is not, at least not a simple Thermo 101 style one) and CICO and MyFitnessPal is all you need isn't a solution.
A better one, IMO, is to understand and maybe empathize with the fact that every body is different and that an ideal weight means something different to everyone.