"Trying to teach adults how to lose weight is about as effective as teaching house cats to swim. For most people, diets simply don't work. The latest evidence: a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine examining diets with different proportions of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Not surprisingly, it made no difference what kind of diet people followed; if they reduced calories, they initially lost weight. But after two years, average participants had regained weight, leaving them with a net loss of just 9 pounds . . . and on a path toward further regain. A similar study published in 2007 also found that dieters regained weight regardless of their regime."Do not follow the recommendations of the experts since they are doomed to fail and nonsensical.
Then you will have a real shot at losing weight.
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Hey there,
Thanks for the post!
I've been fascinated with how many different perspectives have been attached to that study.
I think the real question at the heart of all this has nothing to do with *how* people lose weight, or why they should. I don't even suspect weight loss is really even about the weight.
Rather, it's about how you want your life to be.
When I went from 350-175, I used three different eating methods and many fitness strategies. At my most effective, the goal was never "hit 180" bur rather "prove to myself I could do it, and go for broke."
It's sounds more lovey-dovey and new age-y than it really is. But it's not something I"m sure scientific studies can pinpoint -- what makes someone ready to make a leap of faith.
Best,
Russ Lane
Second Helping
http:/www.secondhelpingonline.com
Hello, Russ, and welcome to Fitness Watch.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments.
There is a common factor to all successful undertakings, i.e., possibility of succeeding.
Once the possible is undertaken, that there is more than one way to succeed is a given.
It is when a task is rendered impossible that problems arise.
With near-certainty, we are aware of the methods that can be used to kill human beings and create suffering via nutritional means.
Concentration camps, POW camps and cities under siege all provide the evidence.
The data (without massaging, as numbers can be tortured into confessing most anything) are clear, compelling and convincing.
The diet advice of the experts are in the range of caloric intake used successfully in the past to harm/kill other humans.
Making a task impossible is a sure-fire way to failure.
The experiences of dieters seem to bear this out.
This is not to say that making it possible will result in universal success.
To wit, schooling is available to the general public and people still squander the opportunity.
But it is the responsibility of the powers that be, e.g., Sick Care, the Feds, Big Media, etc., to promote possible policies instead of doomed-to-fail approaches.
At least that is my opinion.
As to what one wants one's life to be, there are always the small matters of who pays for it and who gets abused (e.g., nutritional child abuse) in the process.
That is another conversation.
In April, Fitness Watch will be offering daily tips and facts re: nutritional child abuse as April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA.
Congrats on your success and thank you, again, for visiting.
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