It’s multiple factors. There is the cheap, ultra processed foods, but also when a doctor tells you to lose weight, they’re likely to tell you to go on a diet and exercise, but without giving advice on what types of diet and exercise are most helpful. Even if they do refer you to a nutritionist, insurance likely won’t cover it. Add misinformation and a culture of blaming people for their bad health to that mix and you end up with a recipe for disaster.
Its not that simple. Its a good starting point for weight loss, but there’s many contributing factors that can affect how one’s body retains calories. Some people are lucky and have all of those contributing factors even out to where all that’s left is a simple calories in/calories out equation, some are even luckier and just burn excess calories with no effort and never meaningfully gain weight, but some will fight hard reducing calories and increasing activity while seeing minimal improvement and end up extremely frustrated and burnt out because it isn’t that simple.
It’s multiple factors. There is the cheap, ultra processed foods, but also when a doctor tells you to lose weight, they’re likely to tell you to go on a diet and exercise, but without giving advice on what types of diet and exercise are most helpful. Even if they do refer you to a nutritionist, insurance likely won’t cover it. Add misinformation and a culture of blaming people for their bad health to that mix and you end up with a recipe for disaster.
Spoiler alert, any exercise is helpful.
calories in minus calories out
Its not that simple. Its a good starting point for weight loss, but there’s many contributing factors that can affect how one’s body retains calories. Some people are lucky and have all of those contributing factors even out to where all that’s left is a simple calories in/calories out equation, some are even luckier and just burn excess calories with no effort and never meaningfully gain weight, but some will fight hard reducing calories and increasing activity while seeing minimal improvement and end up extremely frustrated and burnt out because it isn’t that simple.
metabolism
This isn’t true, fyi. Different people have different bodies.
Where are you folks finding cheap good? I’m grocery poor over here.
Time to order the diet BigMac, Diet Coke, and Diet Fried chicken! Who knew a diet could be so delicious!