[quote]PureNsanity wrote:
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
[quote]PureNsanity wrote:
[quote]twojarslave wrote:
You are never going to reprogram those bad behavior patterns if you cannot find good behavior patterns that you can actually stick with. That inevitably means choosing a suboptimal diet that you can actually execute…[/quote]
You missed the entire point. If you tell someone just pick one, how are they supposed to evaluate and choose one? The majority of obese people do just that… They pick one… They fail… Repeat. Some of them pick a diet and adhere to it, but the diet itself fails them (usually due to really bad dieting advice which is out there and by the way I’ve never recommended to anyone they follow my extreme diets). Do they just start randomly picking diets and give it a go?
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That’s a pretty lame pretense, and finding the perfect diet will not mean that people will follow it.
I suppose that SOME people just randomly pick a diet and hope for success. I honestly don’t think the choice of diet is the real reason why such people will fail. Lack of effort would be my top guess. Beating obesity is less about choice of diet and more about determination and consistency.
I’m still working towards my goal, but I’ve made a lot of progress by - get this - studying what successful people have done and then making an effort to duplicate their approach with modifications that are specific to my lifestyle.
Why? Because these things I am doing - barbell training and making sensible food choices - are proven methods to dramatically change one’s body composition. They work when you do it, and they work quite well.
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Obesity permanently changes physiology so weight loss for obese people has some different guidelines. It basically makes it harder. Obese people are also most likely to have diabetes and insulin resistance, so you want to address how to best treat those conditions as they will negatively impact weight loss. The more results that are produced the more likely it is someone will stick to it. Also unexplained results can result in a person giving up, but if you provide explanations they may stick it out.[/quote]
Now you are going to educate the fat man who has lost 50 lbs (not to mention become much, much stronger than you) about fat loss for fat people? Didn’t you learn anything from the medical professionals?
Your paragraph is a bunch of meaningless bullshit. Diet and exercise. That’s pretty much it for 95% of the obese population. Some fucking effort is really all that’s needed, and one new crazy diet and one person’s anecdotal, non-scientific observations about it will not result in more effort from the obese.
How many obese people have you actually helped improve their body composition? I’ve been at this for just under a year and my count is 2. Myself, using the general approach I outlined, and my friend, by guiding him towards the same general approach, which included making changes that were specific to his lifestyle.
How many people do you really think your program and your observations will help? Will it get anyone off of the couch? Will you learn some nugget of information that will make a fat guy drive past Taco Bell and go to the farmer’s market?