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Narrow answer: the maintenance calories thing was implicit in my original comment (in the "and leave everything else about your life equal," i.e., in addition t
by paultopia 8y ago
Narrow answer: the maintenance calories thing was implicit in my original comment (in the "and leave everything else about your life equal," i.e., in addition to the stuff you're already eating, which is presumably hovering around some equilibrium).
Broad answer: the number of people who struggle with their weight is pretty good evidence that the main challenge is, in fact, to not overeat for millions of people.
- Tycho 8y agoI think the framing of the question is part of why people struggle. People obsess about gym/running and eating certain types of food. All of that is completely unnecessary. Whatever your level of activity is, eat to that goal. Sometimes i’ll be eating something like a donut and someone will say “do you know how many calories are in that??” as if it’s impossible to simply eat a snack and count it towards your daily energy requirements accordingly. Or as if there are two types of food - ones which keep you alive and ones which taste good but contain these bad things called calories which make you fat and which pose an endless battle against temptation. Another thing which people bring up is slowing metabolism which also seems irrelevant since it’s simply the rate of conversion, not the yield. If people struggle i would frame it in terms of willpower - much harder to resist excessive binge eating after a strenuous workout than after something leisurely like a walk. /rant