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The struggle is worse the older you get.
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.
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. 
If only it were that simple. 😅 Most people know what they should do, the hard part is building habits that actually stick over time.
In my country, fast food is too expensive, much cheaper to be eating homestyle meals at a roadside shop.
I can get a fucking steak dinner for the price a some of the more expensive fast food combos around me. Shit is crazy.
I misread the last part as "roadside slop" 😭
"If you legitimately don't consent to the calories, the body has a way of trying to shut that whole thing down." - Todd Akin
Sort of describes bulimia I guess
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.
Or move to rural Britain. Food so gross you'd rather starve.
The title isn't wrong. Losing weight is an extremely simple process.
Simple doesn't mean easy, though.
I feel like a lot of people who are addicted to food don't have much else in their life to keep them excited.
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.
Plenty of keep our lives exciting by addictionmaxing. Food, booze, cigarettes, drugs, sex, gambling, shopping, animal hoarding…
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.
I control my addictions by limiting supply. I buy a fifth of bourbon and a case of beer once a month and that's what I get. If I go on a bender for a week and run out tough shit.
I don't have problems with overeating but if I did my strategy would be to have a limited supply of things I don't have to cook. No chips or soda or sugary bullshit. Just full ingredients that have to be prepped and cooked. When I did cook or order food it would be in an amount that's appropriate. Add friction between me and the things that are a problem for me so it's easier to put off consuming them. Maybe that would work. I don't know.
I also have an abhorrence for delivery services so that helps too.
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.
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
That's just one approach to addiction. Personally, I think it assumes people are weak with no self-control, which seems to be exactly the argument you're making.
The emphasis on abstinence and any exposure at all being a failure might even make binging more likely if someone gives in just a little, as their counter is now reset, so might as well take advantage.
And the obsession/fascination with the addiction target continues or even gets ramped up.
I like the moderation approach a lot better. I don't binge drink every weekend anymore, but if I do feel like having a drink every now and then, I just do instead of spiraling because I need to treat it like some sort of personal failure.
Were you raped by big burger, give the law offices of James Scott Farrin a call...right now.
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.