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Studies show dieting doesn't work for most of the population. Studies have shown this for the last 60 years. Sure, it works in a vacuum, but that's not where real people live.
People are lazy. That's it. CICO works by definition.
Right, you are correct. Now how do we get people to actually follow diets and eat less? How do we save the billions of people who are overweight? Because clearly telling them "stop being so lazy and eat less or exercise more" hasn't been working for decades.
Its because people lie about their diet homie willingly or out of ignorance because they misjudge portion sizes etc,
And what do you suppose we do about that? It has become a global epidemic. Just "get good" and start eating healthy? Clearly that does actually work, and yet obesity is more of a problem now than it has ever been.
Lol losing weight has nothing to do with "eating healthy" im noticing a trend here.
I'm not sure what you are getting at with this statement.
How else does one lose weight then?
Obviously it does. "Eating healthy" in this case means eating fewer calories than you burn. But don't just pick at one small part of one example and not acknowledge the rest of my comment. What do you suppose we do about the obesity epidemic? How do we save as many lives as possible? Many things have been tried, and many have failed. Including telling people to lose weight and how to do it themselves.