(07-25-2017, 07:24 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(07-24-2017, 05:32 PM)wrong_box Wrote: This indeed is a major factor and probably the biggest factor of them all...Once the weight is put on, it's not easy to take off...People who never had to lose weight think it's just so easy to lose weight, just exercise and eat healthy...That's great but it's not a cure all...Thats the best advice to give people, however it's not a fool proof method...Some people can eat a balanced healthy meal system planned by nutritionists and follow a strict exercise  program and still lose very little weight...It's always the people who never have had to lose weight who say it's a simple thing

I know it's not easy to eat less when you're fat.   I've read some articles that say your fat cells will constantly tell you they are starving.   That's why eating less is very difficult once you become overweight.   Fat cells are extremely demanding.  

Most articles I read about how hard it is to lose weight are really about how hard it is to eat less.  

But if you can eat less, I can't understand why it would be hard to lose weight.  Isn't it pure math?  -calories in vs calories burned?  Fat is just stored calories, after all. 

I personally know quite a few fat people, but I've never known one that ate healthy and was still overweight.

But really, and this is a sincere question, for all the horizontally enhanced people out there.   What goes through your mind when someone offers you a piece of chocolate cake?  I know the mind is a very tricky thing.   Is it like drug addiction?   Do you think, I should not eat this, but then, do you find a way to rationalize it?

What goes through your mind is something akin to "damn that looks good, damn that was good, i wonder if they have another because Im still hungry." Then diminishing returns sets in and the 4th slice isnt nearly as good as the first one and I should have some of those Doritos instead but Im thirsty, where's my pepsi? Hey lets go get a pizza.

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