How to Lose Weight…
Let’s cut straight to the heart of the matter.
We want to lose weight, and we want good advice.
Eating less to lose weight makes sense.
But we get told differently.
‘Eat less’ turns into ‘Eat better’ and then into ‘Eat healthy food choices, eat frequently to keep your metabolism revving and your blood sugar stable and DON’T SKIP MEALS!’
‘Eating Less’ becomes STARVATION MODE and METABOLIC SLOW DOWN and LOSING MUSCLE and all sorts of other things that are so bad for you they warrant all capital letters.
So what’s going on?
Is the scientific community actually THIS split on the issue?
Nope.
Bigger things are at play.
Here’s the giant pink elephant in the middle of the room that nobody wants to talk about:
Americans spend OVER 1.6 TRILLION ON FOOD PER YEAR.
Nobody wants to give up those kinda profits!
If you eat less, profits suffer.
1.6 TRILLION….that’s a LOT.
If you eat less, people lose their jobs.
If you eat less, you pay less taxes to the government..I’m not sure what 1.6 TRILLION would net in taxes, but my guess is, it’s a very big number.
The bottom line is that if you choose to eat less, your are choosing to swim against the current.
But we all know the current is NOT leading anywhere that we want to be.
If the US food supply is currently around 3,900 Calories per person per day, then swimming with the current is going to lead to obesity, self esteem issues, diabetes and a host of other lifestyle related diseases.
(And at 3,900 Calories…It’s not like you can simply ‘exercise away’ these extra calories.)
So Choose to Eat Less, and understand why when you go looking for support you may be met with nagging and ‘you’re doing it wrong’ type advice (see my last post on Social Support to get an idea of what I’m talking about)
BP
PS- The easiest way to eat less, that allows you get amazing results without having to broadcast your diet to the world? Eat Stop Eat.
(The 1.6 Trillion figure can be referenced to here: Plunkett Research (2008). Food industry overview, 2008.)
