It's really heartbreaking for me to think about people out there just really stressed about their health.
As you've heard me say many times, in many ways, there is no reliable way to reduce your body size. There has never been one study in the history of the world to show a diet that works long term.
Of course, you can lose weight and you can go and starve yourself or have a “lifestyle change” (ahem, diet), and lose weight. But in a year, two years, three years, four years, five years, are you going to still be at that lower weight?
Studies show no and a byproduct is poor health outcomes, mental and physical health.
So dieting doesn't work to make your body smaller. It makes it bigger.
So if someone is saying you need to lose weight, that is not evidence-based because there's no evidence to show what we can do to lose weight reliably.
Even if we could lose weight, having a smaller body will not necessarily protect you from things like genetic predispositions towards certain conditions or illnesses like type II diabetes or type I diabetes. It's so heavily genetic-based that having a smaller body is not necessarily gonna do much.
Sometimes people, when they're trying to lose weight, they engage in certain types of behaviors, which could be helpful. Those behaviors could be eating different types of food, could be moving their bodies in certain ways, but because they are trying weight loss number to the behaviors then when they stop being able to lose weight they stop the behaviors that could have been helpful for their health and then blame the weight.
Those behaviors have been shown to be not sustainable because when inevitably the weight loss plateaus, even though they're still eating in certain ways, even though they're still exercising in certain ways people stop engaging in those behaviors.
Whereas if you are or focus on healthful behaviors outside of weight loss and a number on a scale, those behaviors are way more sustainable.
For example; If you're doing it just because you want to improve your fitness level or you want to happen to get a different variety of foods into your life. Studies show they're way more sustainable if you're not doing it when you're focused on a number on the scale.
So in my mind, it is black and white. There's no way that you can reliably lose weight and so what do people who are small do in this circumstance?
Do they take medicine?
Do they move their body more?
Do they exercise in a certain way?
Do they build strength?
Do they eat more of a certain food?
Of course, I'm not a doctor, but I'm just looking at the science and what I would do personally myself.
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