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It's not a mystery, but it also sort of pretends that humans are robots. That is, the human body has developed homeostatic mechanisms over billions of years, and a big part of that is that if your body thinks it's starving, it will try its hardest to (a) make you hungry so that you will do whatever you can to eat more, and (b) slow your metabolic rate so you don't die.

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No. Just go and shop for 3000 calories worth of food. All the packages contain kcal/100g, etc -- so its easy to calculate.

Then divide it in two.

Eat 50% of your 3000 calories of food on day 1 and the remaining 50% on day 2. Rinse repeat for other days.

When I do this I literally start seeing steady weight loss after 3-4 days.

Cheat on weekends -- start again on Monday. Lost 20kg over 4 months that way with exercise like walking and running.

Yes you will be hungry but we are sentient beings who can ignore the urge to eat, just as we can control other base urges. You don’t see an attractive person and assault them, or someone with a desirable object and immediately steal from them. It’s called self control.

Agree with this. It's such a strange mindset to me.

I don't like getting up in the morning and going to work. I don't like selling things I no longer use. I don't like economising at the supermarket, and although I enjoy cooking sometimes, doing it all of the time just to survive gets quite tiresome. Etc.

Yet we just have to do those things, because we need money, we need to eat, etc.

Part of being a mature, successful adult is doing things that you might not immediately want to do.

This website is such a fascinating place. Some of the most hyper logical and driven technologists on earth, who then wrap themselves in knots to explain away their lack of physical fitness, when the obvious solution is staring them in the face. People can’t bring themselves to hear the truth

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