The BIGGEST Reason Obese People CAN'T Lose Weight... | Johann Hari

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All addiction is about comfort and the need to stop the pain we feel as humans.

You have to start thinking differently about food and your lifestyle. It's not a diet - it's a forever life change.

Started as 300 lbs. Over the years I dropped to 250 ... Then I woke up to me lying to myself. 6 months later 230 and working on getting to the next goal of 200! 😊

I was sedentary for 6 years after retirement, bought some weights and started exercising 3 times a week, no diet changes at all, lost about 13kg, belt size down to last hole and still loose so I bought a new belt, strength up, feeling good at 69 years old.

Don't use the word DIET. It's lifestyle change period. It will take dedication and hard work. Started in Jan and I am doing just fine with IMF. I simply do not eat crap anymore.

A diet is what you consume, everyday. Always. What you eat regularly is Your diet. As soon as people understand that you always have a diet and ‘going on a diet’ is the wrong way to look at food and their bodies, the sooner people will be healthier.

I am one of those people who has lost 60+kgs over 4-5 years and to this day have kept it off even now after 8 years!
I have cracked the code to losing weight for myself and keeping it off! No diet as such but dedication to the cause helped long term as everything needs to be sustainable!!!!!
Love your work.

Have to say, the general information out there does not help and only adds to the confusion to something so simple as eating simple, seasonal and cooking for yourself!!!!

I've lost 150lbs with keto/low carb and walking. This is my 5th year of maintaining that loss. I still walk and watch carbs. Discipline, an active lifestyle, and consistency are key. Most diets will work if you stick with them and excercise.

If the set point theory really were valid, then we should have always had pervasive obesity problems. Yet, until processed foods laden with sugars, refined sugars, and seed oils became a bulk of our diet, obesity was a rarity - even a rarity among the very rich who could afford an abundance of calories. Just look at old photos of the public prior to the mid 70s or the data concerning obesity rates during that time. This points to the quality of foods subverting our natural appetite, thus inciting us to eat more calories than we would if the food wasn't as highly refined and hyperpalatable.

Wut? The obesity epidemic started when food companies started to aggressively market sugar and putting it into everything we eat and drink. We were turned into sugar addicts with that first bowl of Frosted Flakes.

Wow, very powerful. I've recently lost 40% of my weight (without any support from anyone or any medication, just pure will power), working towards shrinking myself in half. Losing those last 10% is quite hard, as I reach plateaus a lot, but I keep going. I still hate sports and gyms and things like that, but I love walking. If I don't do my 10.000 steps a day, something is missing in my life. I honestly enjoy the food I eat now, mainly salads. I had been on diets and struggled with ED all my life since the age of ten, often losing masses of weight, only to gain even more. What has changed and has lead to a complete lifestyle change: 1. Menopause - my life really began with menopause and the hormonal changes that came with it. Before I was unable to control my urges for sweets - this is now controllable with willpower. 2. I have removed all abusive people from my life, both in my private as well as in my professional life. So no need for comfort eating for what other people do to me. I am completely alone, but it seems that's what I need.

Put yourself in a calorie deficit and you will lose weight. Eat healthy while in that calorie deficit and you will feel pretty good while doing it. Continue to eat healthy, just at maintenance calories, and you will keep it off for as long as you want.

It’s that easy, you just have to want it bad enough. It isn’t about will power,
but want power. You have to want all the benefits of being healthy and lean more than any perceived benefit you think you get from eating junk.

It’s a choice.

The first month is the hardest as you detox off all the sugar and junk. Get past that and it gets a lot easier.

Don’t focus on calories, focus on what’s healthy. I adopted this approach 11 months ago and have been losing weight since.

I was given antibiotics I didn't need (long story) and put on 13kg despite making no changes to my diet. Not obese yet, but who the heck knows what can happen when your gut microbiome has been devastated

I always find it strange when people say we're living more stressful lives. Or is it that we've lost a lot of coping skills? Was it really less stressful in the olden days (before the "magical" 1950's) before medical breakthroughs, multiple births, higher infant mortality, The depression, 2 world wars, etc. etc. My grandma lived in the days before disposable tissues and washing machines and had to wash grandpa's handkerchiefs by hand! She said it was really disgusting, lol!

I've tried every diet and never lost weight on any except Keto and Fasting, neither of which lasted longer than a couple of months. This month, I tried Carnivore with Keto as my backup if I fall off the wagon. It's great. I've lost 18 lbs in the first month and don't feel as though it's in any way restrictive. I'm just never hungry and rather than thinking I should want to exercise.. I FEEL I NEED TO EXERCISE!

The diet doesnt end when you reach your goal weight. It just changes. You need to eat no more than what maintains your weight. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to watch what you eat for the rest of your life.

If the drugs lowered the "set point" wouldn't you expect people to maintain their weight after they stop with the injections? Imho ozempic only forces the body into starvation and that's it. It's a bit like a real famine, once the body can eat again it will return to the "set point"

I went to a countryside health retreat about 12 years ago. We were NOT allowed any tech (mobiles, laptops etc were taken off us) and no TVs, newspapers were present or allowed - all we were told to do was walk (if we chose to) in nature; drink as much herbal tea and water as we wanted all day, read books, chat to other guests, eat our ONE healthy meal around 5pm and go to bed at 9pm. Doing this, I lost 9lbs in 5 days!!! Clearly demonstrates how the media, tech, stress, social media and eating when we aren’t actually hungry builds up our weight. Changed my life.