Why do people make weight loss so difficult?

[thismighthelp]

You do because you don't want to face the truth. Weightloss is really simple, but most want to continue the search for the magic, diet , pill or app and the Weightloss industry knows this by giving you what you want. Dig through all this data, do this strict diet or fitness program or take this pill anyone can increase the list. They are giving you everything you want except Weightloss. People that lose weight make it look simple because it is. The people that make it look hard will gain their weight back if they lose any at all.
Make your program simple. Logging should take 5 minutes a day. You don't have to weigh and measure evrey morsel. Make your exercise program simple. Most do the same thing or something similar over and over again. Put the same amount of calories each time. Keep it simple and you will lose weight . You have to come to one truth. Everyone has an HSK Prime # and if you eat below it you will lose weight. Period end of story.

[I-train-hard]

No **ahem**.

Losing weight it’s difficult. If you don’t agree go to any store, mall etc. and look around you.

What do you see?

Almost 60-70% people are overweight. It’s a **ahem**ing plague in our time.

Solutions – many say simple. Nothing is simple.

 Look at the amount of food that we eat, how the food is made, from what the food is made, all the additions to the food, and after all is cooked by the big companies the question remins….is really food what we eat?

 Looks like it, tastes good but what is it that we eat?

[CristineT]

Indeed, if it were as simple as moving more and eating less, I would be skinny at that this!

[CristineT]

Spot on! 

[divedragon]

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@extra_medium wrote:

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@divedragon wrote:

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Carbs and especially simple carbs seem to increasae insulin production above that of fat or protiens.  This extra insulin can result in the body attempting to store more fat even duirng a calorie deficit.  This makes the old time calories in / calories out theory sometimes wrong. 

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Except your body can't just decide not to use the energy it needs to continue to operate, even if you ate nothing but spoonfuls of sugar -  if you're in a caloric deficit over a given period of time you will lose weight. 

It's hard to write a lot of books, get on talk shows or come up with fad diets based on calories in/calories out but that is really all that matters when it comes to weight loss/weight gain.

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So it's taken me a while to respond to this.  You're correct in that your body will use the energy it needs, but that doesn't mean that as a result of one (ie. insulin spike) a corresponding effect can occur (i.e.: hormonal reduction in metabolism) that changes the equation.  Other factors such as timing can also affect what happens in the body.  If you eat a meal high in simple carbs, you get a flood of glucose in the blood.  This flood causes excess insulin to be generated in an attempt to lower blood glucose by storing it as fat.  Each subsequent meal you eat will replishish blood glucose so if you are eating within a 6-10 hour window, your blood glucose may not go low enough to trigger the fat burning and if you do it won't be long enough to burn the amount of fat your body stored.  Other hormones such as cortisol, the stress hormone, can also prevent fat oxidation, even under calorie restriction.  This would probably result in a slowing of metobolism. 

I'm including a couple of links to Dr. Fung's studies below.  If you spend some time going through some of his blogs, you'll see a lot of evidence that demonstrate our hormones are a set of variables that the slightest imbalance can throw off what may seem intuitive.

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/how-do-we-gain-weight-calories-part-1/

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/atkins-decline-hormonal-obesity-part-xx/