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If you had a bigger family member who had tried everything, what would you recommend to them?

robomartin 5y ago
What is far more likely is that they didn't actually try everything. This is one of the problems. If you had an accurate log of their behavior and nutrition it would likely be very easy to determine that they did not, in fact, do what they were supposed to do, sometimes at all. I've seen this so many times I don't even bother to comment any more. The typical case is the person who will, for example, claim to have started a ketogenic diet and next time you see them they ingest three slices of pizza. What's amazing to me is that they actually think they are doing everything they are supposed to do. > what would you recommend to them? I would put it in a very different way using a hypothetical case. Let's assume that a person has 90 days to loose a bunch of weight or they are going to die. Not muscle, fat. In other words, improve their body composition to trim both visceral and other fat. What would I recommend they do? Take a pill? Nope. I would make sure they could not eat as much as they have been eating and would add moderate exercise. We could argue about what they should and should not be eating, but even if all you eat is ice cream and candy, if I put you on a 100 calorie daily diet of ice cream for 90 days straight, you are going to lose weight at an alarming rate. Not that I am proposing this at all. It would not be healthy. A balanced diet is important for a range or reasons having nothing to do with weight loss. The point is that people who claim to have tried everything are lying to themselves, they have not, because, at the end of the day, if you eat less (a little to a lot less, depending on circumstances) you will lose weight. It really isn't that complicated. It isn't easy because of a range of factors, including what ingesting so much sugar and simple carbs does to your body and brain, but it isn't complicated.

What is far more likely is that they didn't actually try everything. This is one of the problems. If you had an accurate log of their behavior and nutrition it would likely be very easy to determine that they did not, in fact, do what they were supposed to do, sometimes at all. I've seen this so many times I don't even bother to comment any more. The typical case is the person who will, for example, claim to have started a ketogenic diet and next time you see them they ingest three slices of pizza. What's amazing to me is that they actually think they are doing everything they are supposed to do. > what would you recommend to them? I would put it in a very different way using a hypothetical case. Let's assume that a person has 90 days to loose a bunch of weight or they are going to die. Not muscle, fat. In other words, improve their body composition to trim both visceral and other fat. What would I recommend they do? Take a pill? Nope. I would make sure they could not eat as much as they have been eating and would add moderate exercise. We could argue about what they should and should not be eating, but even if all you eat is ice cream and candy, if I put you on a 100 calorie daily diet of ice cream for 90 days straight, you are going to lose weight at an alarming rate. Not that I am proposing this at all. It would not be healthy. A balanced diet is important for a range or reasons having nothing to do with weight loss. The point is that people who claim to have tried everything are lying to themselves, they have not, because, at the end of the day, if you eat less (a little to a lot less, depending on circumstances) you will lose weight. It really isn't that complicated. It isn't easy because of a range of factors, including what ingesting so much sugar and simple carbs does to your body and brain, but it isn't complicated.