BCtriguy1 wrote:
While that is true, it's more complicated then that.
Go to McDonald's and eat 1500 Cal of food. You can do that in 10 minutes and still feel hungry 15 minutes later. Go eat 1500 Cal of salad and you'll be eating 5 large bowls of food.
Trying to restrict your caloric intake on a diet of heavily processed foods means you'll barely be eating anything volume wise and always feel hungry. It would be really, really hard to do.
I think there needs to be a large educational push around what healthy eating really is. North America's food culture is pretty messed up.
We've created this whole cultural lie of equating fat with "what you eat". Get into any conversation in any forum anywhere, talk about losing fat, and people will start talking about "what you eat" much more than "eat fewer calories". In fact, in most places if you try to orient them on the basic thermodynamics of this, they will push back, insisting that it's at least as much an issue of "what you eat", as if the human body didn't have to obey the laws of thermodynamics.
The problem this creates is that it allows folks to avoid the hard truth of "eat less". As long as you give humans a way to avoid a requirement for self-discipline, they will.
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