The struggle is worse the older you get.
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"If you legitimately don't consent to the calories, the body has a way of trying to shut that whole thing down." - Todd Akin
Now replace calories with rape
I believe that was the reference yes
That sounds terrible.
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omg guys! this actually works!
I was just eating a fat burger for lunch and was getting really full. I wasn't sure how I could finish the rest of it and I just told the calories to fuck off and I was able to finish the whole thing!
Jokes on you I got some sort of undiagnosed malabsorption issues and won't get fat even when I eat burgers and candy and alcohol day after day.
That sounds like a very expensive chronic issue.
Nice superpower.
Sort of and also not. Not getting energy from food also means I have no energy for you know, existing.
So while I might not need to worry about getting fat, I've also nowhere to display not being fat.
I tend to sleep quite a lot. 
no no it is not.
being a bag of skeletons that do not like each other, eating 5000 calories a day and losing weight, that is not fun.
Yeah luckily I don't have it quite that bad, (especially after I went on an exclusion diet and slowly added things to a really plain diet and sort of figured a bit what works what doesn't) but, yes, I definitely agree with you. Not fun.
I'd rather be fat and jolly than slim and super cranky from constantly being in some weird state of mild starvation. But it's so mild and I make sure to supplement vitamins and whatnot so none of my basic lab-work is showing anything too far out of the ordinary, so the busy public doctors can't be bothered to look into it since to them everything seems fine. Even when I can show them almost a years worth of literally shit pics, me having taken photographs of my stinky and floating orange poo. (I sent them to a spam-email I have so I don't have to keep them in my phone's gallery.)
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In my country, fast food is too expensive, much cheaper to be eating homestyle meals at a roadside shop.
Is that country the US? /s
But seriously, fast food isn't cheap anymore. It's cheaper to go to a real sub shop than it is to go to Subway! Or just make food at home.
When I was younger... you could buy a cheese burger at McDonalds for 1 buck. It's not even that long ago. Like 10 years ago
When I vacationned in the US I was always taken aback by how much fast food used to be cheaper than an actual hearthy meal you cook yourself... Unless you forego the protein...
That's all sorts of fucked up.
I can get a fucking steak dinner for the price a some of the more expensive fast food combos around me. Shit is crazy.
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Addicted to alcohol: Stop drinking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to cigarettes: Stop smoking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to crack: Stop smoking crack. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to food: Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don't consume so much of that thing that you're addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser...
The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can't stop eating food. You'll die.
So it's as if an alcoholic has to constantly have just a little alcohol. Or a crackhead has to keep smoking crack, but only every once in a while. No problem, just control yourself...
I'm sure telling people that they're pieces of shit for eating food will fix the problem, eventually. We just have to try a little harder.
The way chemicals interact with dopamine, some of those substances are a LOT harder than others. You just need to change the food you eat. I found fasting easier than meticulous dieting. I had the willpower and was enable to accept the simplicity of simply not eating.
Oh for sure...fasting is waaay easier. That's kinda my point. Fasting is literally not eating.
Unfortunately you can't just do it forever. Well I mean, you can...
Thanks for this, I had an idea about food addiction but that explanation puts it in perspective.
Companies also try to make foods as addictive as possible and as flashy as possible. It's like avoiding the constant casino ads as a gambling addict, but you had to keep stepping into a casino every week forever and only doing low bets.
but you had to keep stepping into a casino every week forever and only doing low bets.
at least 3 times a day, plus once in a while in between, maybe on your phone.
good luck not going bankrupt
on top of that, if someone is using excess food to "self medicate" issues like... IDK, anxiety? by forcing the body to go from the Sympathetic nervous system response to the Parasympathetic nervous system response.... yeah. Fun coping mechanism makes one fat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasympathetic_nervous_system
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YSK: If you are an American Citizen or US Tax Resident, your first 200 pounds of fat is legally exempt and therefore does not count for BMI Purposes. Nutritionists hate this one simple trick!
Follow me for more advice.
The title isn't wrong. Losing weight is an extremely simple process.
Simple doesn't mean easy, though.
Or move to rural Britain. Food so gross you'd rather starve.
Every fat person on earth already knows that too much food makes you fat.
Yet somehow, even armed with this knowledge, we're all fat.
Curious.
A significant part of it is the stuff they put in our food.
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I feel like a lot of people who are addicted to food don't have much else in their life to keep them excited.
Plenty of keep our lives exciting by addictionmaxing. Food, booze, cigarettes, drugs, sex, gambling, shopping, animal hoarding…
It's like any addiction really, easy to slip into even if everything is fine, and when 1 thing goes wrong you turn to it. It literally makes you feel better in the short term and your brain tells you to do it.
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If only it were that simple. 😅 Most people know what they should do, the hard part is building habits that actually stick over time.
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