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Originally Posted by Michou
Hi, I am a calorie counter, that is what works for me since it makes me conscious of portion size and also the nutrition content. I see this as a training tool a way to get use to a different way of eating.
This being said, I have been reading a storm about different diets, numbers of calories, starvation, etc and I must say that the more I read the more confuse I get. There are some forums unlike yours where people attack each other if someone have a different opinion and they fall into incomprensible speech.
Am I the only one to think that although loosing weight is not easy that it is not complicated in itself.
If I move more
If I eat less
If I eat lean
If I eat fresh
The weight will eventually go away..........why do they have to make things so complicated and set themselves to failure. Keeping it simple is the answer I think. Excuse the rant this is after reading tons of posts elsewhere.
If I dont lose weight this week, my options are simple, eat less, move more, eat lean and eat fresh and it might not go away at the speed I want, it will still go away.
For some people it is that simple - eat less, move more.
But, how do you make yourself eat less and not start to go mad in the process? You are basically telling your body for a long time, "Sorry, you have to exist with less food than you think you need." And, being a good body that it is, it will try to convince you that you SHOULD be eating more as it doesn't like to lose weight. Losing weight equals death. Try to tell it that it is overweight and that you won't let it starve to death. If only it understood our explanations.
So, for some people it's not so simple. They have to find things, tweak things that make it possible to keep eating at a deficit long term. That might mean more exercise. It might mean less exercise. it might mean several small meals a day, or one large meal day. It could mean lowering fat intake and eating more complex carbs, or it could mean raising fat intake and eating fewer carbs.
People have to find their sweet spot that makes this LONG journey the easiest to stick to not only for the duration of the diet, but for maintaining that loss.
So, it is simple - yes, achieving that simple thing can get quite complicated.