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it's not super complicated for most cases: grams of sugar(s) ingested versus grams of essential nutrients (proteins, fats) is too high.

• firesteelrain 2y ago
  If most cases include people without diabetes, PCOS or some other condition, yes you can eat less than what you burn and you will lose weight. In other cases, those people need medical intervention such as Mounjaro, Ozempic, etc
  • jjtheblunt 2y ago
    I mean to point out that "signal to noise" is what's often being overlooked, though "noise to signal" is more descriptive terminology. it's very easy, in american fast food, for example, to ingest a great amount of unnecessary sugars (difficult to digest lipids, etc) while your body is trying to just get necessary nutrients themselves. worse, since we are built to remember results of eating, if some low nutritional signal to noise "food" satisfies some necessary essential nutrient craving, it's easy to remember what it was that alleviated a craving before, and tail recursively go eat the same shit again.
    • firesteelrain 2y ago
      Oh right makes sense. You crave it because it made you feel good yet is a low quality food. So the cycle repeats itself. I am going through a weight loss journey myself and it is very eye opening now that I am tracking my calories and nutrition. I was eating very poorly