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The only thing you need to know to successfully lose weight is that you need to consume less calories than your body requires to maintain its current weight. Th
by hyko 6y ago
The only thing you need to know to successfully lose weight is that you need to consume less calories than your body requires to maintain its current weight. That's it.
I’m afraid this is BS. It’s from the “how to make a million dollars and pay no taxes” school of self improvement. Sure, to lose weight you have to consume fewer calories than you need to maintain your current weight. Understanding that tautology is not the part that people find difficult.
- runawaybottle 6y ago“To know and not to do is not to know.”, some Chinese proverb.
- RikNieu 6y agoWhat part do people find difficult? For me it was simply discipline and commitment. That had nothing to do with how calories work.
- hyko 6y agoMaybe change it to The only thing you need to know to successfully lose weight is that you’ll need discipline and commitment then :) There are myriads of factors that prevent people from being able to reach and maintain a “healthy” weight long term, otherwise fixing the obesity crisis would be as simple as handing out an index card to everyone. Most diets ultimately fail (including calorie counting), and we still don’t completely understand why: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unexpected-clues-emerge-about-why-diets-fail/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unexpected-clues-... An autonomic process should not require one ounce of discipline and commitment, otherwise something has gone far wrong systemically.