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    5 days ago

    Eating less calories.

    When people say “eat less” they fall into the trap of not eating and their body goes into starvation mode where its highest priority is maintaining fat reserves even at the point of limiting energy making exercise harder.

    They’re working against themselves.

    High fiber food takes forever to digest, because blood sugar steadily increases as you digest it, your body is happy. It’s not going to tell you that eating is the most important thing and if you don’t you’re gonna die.

    But if it worked, we would know by now and obesity would be uncommon.

    I legitimately can’t tell if you suddenly agreed with me or what just happened there…

    I’m saying the “common sense” method isn’t just ineffective, it’s making it harder to lose weight.

    If the “common sense” method worked, we wouldn’t be double chin deep in an obesity epidemic. Because very few people want to be obese.