I disagree. As someone who lost 52lbs naturally through proper diet and exercise I can tell you that will power has little to do with this. I was in the gym 4-5 a week, tried every diet, and nothing was working for me. I see fat people in the gym on the treadmills and spin class, sweating their asses off. They’re dedicated and working but they aren’t losing weight. Lizzo did an entire Peloton spin series and dances 2-3 a day on tour and in rehearsals but she’s still fat. You’re right there’s a lot of information out there but a lot of it contradicts itself. People don’t know who to believe. I’m so grateful I got lucky and found a good trainer who knows what they are talking about because I have had trainers that didn’t.
I'm not sure what side you're arguing, but I'll say this
You cannot out run a bad diet.
I walk about 5 miles a day, and that takes 90-120 minutes, for about 500-600 calories.
I can drink a large soda and eat large fries and that's about 600 calories.
Taking in the calories - 5-10 minutes
Taking off the calories - 90-120 minutes.
There's considerable mental effort in NOT EATING BAD STUFF.
Most of the time
- Shop for ingredients
- Cook every meal
- Prep every meal
- Clean up after every meal
- Have a meal plan
- Deal with boredom of the same meals
- Deal with the laziness of preparing different meals
The dish washing alone drives me up the wall.
The alternative?
Buying food that usually tastes great and has little hassle. Which I used to do without thinking about. (which most people do without thinking about)
I could easily spend 80 bucks on Uber Eats just for myself. (6 figs, 6 certs, not worried about the $$ like a lot of Coli Pocket Watchers)
I was more worried about the uber driver picking it up and dropping it off before it got cold...Forgetting the milkshake.
The American Corporate system has made buying breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks as easy as possible.
And that is what has happened to America, Europe, and most countries that develop. You need Japanese levels of coordination and conformity to not fall victim to how the game works.
It's not like there was a sudden collective loss of human will power from the 90's to the 00s.
Instead, a multi-trillion dollar industry has optimized it's business to directly attack the part of the brain that triggers hunger.
- Real Commercials
- Stealth Commercials like News spots and Social Media influencers
- Vending Machines
- Convenience Stores
- Grocery stores with ready items, or easy to cook items
- Fast Food
- Fast Casual
- Casual
- Instagram Worthy Places
- Engineered Junk Food
- Chef Optimized Real Food (they use a ton of salt and butter in most places to get things to taste better than you make it at home)
We live in a world where sociopaths make money off of pinging your deepest desires.
- Clickbait/Rage Bait
- Attention Economy
- Sex Sells
- Race/Gender/Identity - social need to be in the "in" group and not in the "out" group
- Violence
And Food.
So when I say that folks don't stand a chance - they lack the will power - I'm saying they're being attacked from all angles to CONSUME.
Our collective inability to cook like our grandparents is a direct result concerted efforts to make anything tedious "easy and convenient"
No one should be surprised that Americans are fat.
Same with Mexicans, and Filipinos and Germans, and everyone else that adopts American style capitalism and applies it towards their food.
Having been to China and Thailand in recent years - a lot of fatties - and both of those places are slowly adopting our economic system.
Cambodia on the other hand (Vietnam as well) - skinny to the point you think there's some major malnutrition.
It ain't MY FAULT I'm a dedicated muhfukka to my health goals and you ain't... yOu ChEaTeD hUh???
not even 170...maybe it's genetics but I've never had to do all this extreme shyt, only thing I do really is avoid soda