Slimebeast said:
HappySqurriel said:
I thought I would revive this thread with a question to see people’s opinions on a hypothesis I’ve been developing over the past little while ...
A little over a decade ago, when I was 19 years old, I lost (roughly) 90 pounds and I have mostly kept it off since then. At the time I didn’t follow any structured diet program, and my focus was on eating what I thought was a more appropriate portion size and paying attention to the signals my body was telling me about how I should eat. Over the years I have periodically put back on some of the weight and tried a variety of different methods to take it off with varying results.Recently (as in over the past few years) I have had a growing interest in nutrition in general and I decided to return to the root of my weight loss and focus on listening to my body and eating appropriately; and I have achieved a level of success that has always eluded me.
My hypothesis is that conventional diets do not work; and the reason why the dieting is still so heavily promoted is because the weight-loss industry is big business (over $40 Billion per year) and there isn’t much money in telling people to pay more attention to what their body is telling them.
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You're right of course.
Are you over-weight now squirl?
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I have always been on the slim side, but i also try to eat almost everything, there are some salads i dont like that much, but i still eat them cause i know they are good for me. I agree with you and i think the main problem is not selecting what you actually eat.
Once/Twice a month i give myself a small prize and i eat not-so-good food, a huge icecream, a huge burger and so on, but i know i just cant eat that everyday cause it would like almost like poison myself in the long term. When i got anxious, i try to eat healthy food, like probiotics-added milk/yogurth, vitamin-added dietary fiber-added cookies, etc, etc.
