Many people here are talking about what they percieve as the systematic issues that prevent them from losing weight. I no longer buy any of this, because I moved from the US to Europe a few years ago and have since gained around 10 kg.
No amount of public transit-friendly infrastructure is going to stop me from putting more food in my mouth than I need at any given time. No belief that cooking needs to be an hour long affair or it's worthless is going to change the fact that I can cook a week's worth of lentils in a rice cooker with 5 minutes of prep time on a Sunday. 5 more minutes gets me a week's worth of boiled eggs.
Rather, I think most people are incentivized to make themselves look good, and want to chatter about conspiracy theories as to why their lives secretly suck. I can understand this, I'm liable of both of these myself in the same way. But at the end of the day, I am fat because I chose over a long period of time to put more food into my body than I needed, and the way I get out of being fat is by putting in less. When I reach a healthy weight the mission changes to a much easier, match caloric income with caloric expenses.
Focusing my efforts on that simple fact is the only way I have ever successfully lost weight. The theories are fun, in the same way quantum physics is fun even though 99.9% of what we do in everyday electromagnetics is in the boring house that Maxwell built.
I actually lost about 30 lbs after moving out of the city back to the rural town I grew up in where I have to drive everywhere. Taking care of yourself is about your attitude/worldview and I think the attitude city living encourages makes that harder.
No amount of public transit-friendly infrastructure is going to stop me from putting more food in my mouth than I need at any given time. No belief that cooking needs to be an hour long affair or it's worthless is going to change the fact that I can cook a week's worth of lentils in a rice cooker with 5 minutes of prep time on a Sunday. 5 more minutes gets me a week's worth of boiled eggs.
Rather, I think most people are incentivized to make themselves look good, and want to chatter about conspiracy theories as to why their lives secretly suck. I can understand this, I'm liable of both of these myself in the same way. But at the end of the day, I am fat because I chose over a long period of time to put more food into my body than I needed, and the way I get out of being fat is by putting in less. When I reach a healthy weight the mission changes to a much easier, match caloric income with caloric expenses.
Focusing my efforts on that simple fact is the only way I have ever successfully lost weight. The theories are fun, in the same way quantum physics is fun even though 99.9% of what we do in everyday electromagnetics is in the boring house that Maxwell built.