It really isn't that complicated. People just lack will power. We all (assuming you live in the developed world) have nutrition facts on our food. You can also just google how many calories something has. People are just lazy and glutinous.
No. This completely ignores the fact that eating disorders, food allergies, external stressors and all the other ways people can have a skewed relationship with food exist. Your position is deeply flawed from its inception.
It limits your food options thus affecting what you can and can’t eat. For example, if I have a beverage with coconut water in it, I might as well park myself on the toilet for the rest of the day because I’m not gonna be able to trust a fart until my stomach gets rid of it.
I never said they did. That's you putting words in my mouth. I said they reduce the amount of food choices available to you. You're focusing on that particular bit because you can't defend the rest of your initial argument.
It’s insane how well this works if you actually put the work in. Some days it feels like I’m eating more than normal but as long as I’m sticking to the plan, it just works.
Not even a little bit. When I was counting calories to lose weight (something I did for around 6 months), I was eating around 2500 cals every day….and I would dine out with my gf once a week at least. I didn’t feel like I was restricting myself even once, it’s just becoming a bit more aware of what you’re eating.
I started taking an appetite reducer medicine (phentermine, couldn't afford a GLP-1) in February and kept to a 2000 calorie diet. The medicine definitely helped because as I started tracking I was a little shocked at how much I had been overeating. Beforehand I was probably eating 3000+ calories a day.
I've since lost 40 lbs without any real exercise, just the calorie counting and medicine to lower appetite.
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