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You can't outrun a bad diet. Food — not lack of exercise — fuels obesity, study finds (www.npr.org)

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

it's really not, you can make it more nuanced but it's really as simple as eating different and less.

I have personally lost 40lbs by eating different. no physical activity changes, only food. I stopped eating carbs and sugar. i essentially went keto and within 5 mo ths, 40 lbs vanished. I went from. a 41 pant to a 34/36 and shirts went from XL to M/L.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

There was another comment I replied to earlier that summed it up pretty well, so I'm just going to paste it here.

Of course it's that simple. It always was. Purely technically speaking. Reduce calories in whatever way and probably even exercise to some degree. No magic needed.

It's just not that easy for everybody equally. Some just can't regulate themselves well, some take drugs that fuck your weight up even if you'd just eat a slice of bread daily, some can't exercise at all, some are too poor to buy non-shitty foods (especially in horrible food-anarchy-countries like the US where sugar is legion), and some simply don't know better or don't understand.

You saying "is it really that easy?" Is survivorship-bias. You succeeded where millions(?) fail. But congrats anyway 😁

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

some take drugs that fuck your weight up even if you’d just eat a slice of bread daily

Drugs can't violate the laws of physics. If you eat nothing but a slice of bread daily and you're overweight, you can't not lose weight.

What a drug can do it is influence your brain/cravings/etc. so that you're more/less likely to eat X amount, and that in turn makes you gain/lose weight.

[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The opposite is also true, such as in the case of GLP-1 inhibitors. But these drugs come with unwanted side effects, and there seems to be a rebound once one stops taking the drug. This discussion already is highly nuanced! So perhaps it's not as simple as counting calories, after all.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course, you're right, I edited my comment to reflect that.

Ultimately my point is, drugs can 'influence' you into eating more/less, but they definitely can't prevent you from losing weight while starving yourself.

[–] xep@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Generally speaking though, it's very difficult to starve yourself since your body wants to maintain homeostasis. I don't think that's a good way to lose weight, even if it's for the sake of better health.

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