drtbear1967
Musclechemistry Board Certified Member
You'll always need to exercise some level of restraint, even after you lose the weight. ⠀
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It's not possible to go back to your old habits (never cooking, eating out all the time, mindless eating while watching TV, etc.) and keep the weight off... ⠀
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You cannot just have anything and everything offered to you all the time and without any regard of portion sizes. ⠀
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Because food is constantly available and it's calorie dense, and low volume, and a big part of it is the lack of nutritional quality in the "easy and quick" highly available foods. ⠀
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Food is engineered to do things on your brain and make you not want to stop, especially foods that have the combination of sugar, fat, and salt which have addictive-like qualities. ⠀
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Another contributing problem is that we're moving less in general due to easy and convenient lifestyles. ⠀
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That's not a problem our grandparents ever had. ⠀
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Because our current environment is obesogenic - meaning if you go with the flow you're highly likely to become overweight. That's just the way it is. ⠀
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But in return we have medicine, we can vote, and no Roman will take over your village and demand to take away your son to make him a Roman soldier who will one day come back to your village and fight against your people (this is what they did in the days of the Roman Empire...) ⠀
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Given the choice, I know what I'd go for! ⠀
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So yes, it's not easy. ⠀
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But it's worth it. It's all about long-term quality of life, and most of the things that cause us to become overweight are short-term pleasures - they don't improve our life or make us feel any better afterwards! ⠀
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It's up to you to weigh up what's worth it and what's not. ⠀
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And if you have a goal to lose 30, 60 or 100lbs, I help moms lose weight by changing their habits. This means they lose ALL the weight (not just 5 or 10lbs and then gain it back), and they never gain weight again because they have created new habits.
<body id="cke_pastebin" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; left: -1000px;">You'll always need to exercise some level of restraint, even after you lose the weight. ⠀
⠀
It's not possible to go back to your old habits (never cooking, eating out all the time, mindless eating while watching TV, etc.) and keep the weight off... ⠀
⠀
You cannot just have anything and everything offered to you all the time and without any regard of portion sizes. ⠀
⠀
Because food is constantly available and it's calorie dense, and low volume, and a big part of it is the lack of nutritional quality in the "easy and quick" highly available foods. ⠀
⠀
Food is engineered to do things on your brain and make you not want to stop, especially foods that have the combination of sugar, fat, and salt which have addictive-like qualities. ⠀
⠀
Another contributing problem is that we're moving less in general due to easy and convenient lifestyles. ⠀
⠀
That's not a problem our grandparents ever had. ⠀
⠀
Because our current environment is obesogenic - meaning if you go with the flow you're highly likely to become overweight. That's just the way it is. ⠀
⠀
But in return we have medicine, we can vote, and no Roman will take over your village and demand to take away your son to make him a Roman soldier who will one day come back to your village and fight against your people (this is what they did in the days of the Roman Empire...) ⠀
⠀
Given the choice, I know what I'd go for! ⠀
⠀
So yes, it's not easy. ⠀
⠀
But it's worth it. It's all about long-term quality of life, and most of the things that cause us to become overweight are short-term pleasures - they don't improve our life or make us feel any better afterwards! ⠀
⠀
It's up to you to weigh up what's worth it and what's not. ⠀
⠀
And if you have a goal to lose 30, 60 or 100lbs, I help moms lose weight by changing their habits. This means they lose ALL the weight (not just 5 or 10lbs and then gain it back), and they never gain weight again because they have created new habits. </body>
