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Intuitive Eating?

That is the diet that humans and animals have used for all of time - and were rarely overweight. However in the last ~35 years, people have been dieting like crazy and they just get fatter and fatter. Look at graphs of diets vs weight. The more that people diet, the fatter they get. Why? Since conventional "wisdom" is 100% incorrect. It isn't energy that makes us more massive. It is mass that makes us more massive. Stop eating so damn much. No you cannot eat 100 pounds of "low fat" "low cal" "low carb" food a day and be thin. If you eat that much of just anything digestable, you will be fat. Instead, eat just what you need and nothing more. Plain and simple.

Think about it. How many times have you seen an obscenly obese person eat a whole bag of cookies (10+ servings) in a sitting, and then that fat person was pround since they were "low calorie" cookies? I see it all the time.

The problem is that no one wants to hear the truth. They have to eat less. It isn't a magic drug. It isn't an all you can eat of XYZ diet. It is a diet where they have to have self-control and take responsibility for their excesses.
 
eating only when you are hungry is a nontrival task for many people.

All this guy is saying, if you have the will to eat a reasonable amount of food, you won't get fat.
 
Makes sense; if you hold in your biological urges, sooner or later you'll crack. Just look at the sex scandals occuring in the RCC.
 
I'm used to eating a lot as I burn quite a bit of energy with exercise. I guess I don't always "stop when I'm full" but that's hard to do at times. I'm not always sure when I'm really full. Sometimes I think I am and then later I'm hungry again. Sometimes I think I need more food when it's really my mouth wanting more than my body needs. I'm not really fat as I do get a lot of exercise (kickboxing), but I could stand to trim a little fat off. To me (as well as most athletic types), this involves balancing portions AS WELL AS the right balance of protein and carbohydrates. You can't just eat whatever you want (even in small portions) and not suffer from a nutritional deficiency. There has to be a balance of nutruient types. This is the problem I have with this diet.
 
Eating when you're hungry? That's just silly!

I eat healthy, I've never counted callories or touched a diet. I eat all I like. -Everyone- in my house does...that's seven people. None of us are remotely overweight, and most of my family doesn't exercise.

The key is eating real food, not some crappy microwave dinner or stuffing yourself with hamburgers. Pretty much everything we eat is homemade. From bread/buns/pizza crusts, to soup, pizza (which when made right is not only tasty but quite healthy), and pretty much everything else, it's all homemade.

But most people are too busy working to pay off their two SUVs, taking their kids to daycare, or too lazy to actually cook something I suppose.

Though I can't say I agree with this professor...I pretty much avoid candy bars or anything with processed sugar in it. What some people will stuff in their faces scares me 😛
 
I think the best way not to get fat is to exercise and to condition youself to look at food as fuel for your body, that way you are always aware of the nutrional valuet of the food you are eating and when you do splurge and have a so-called "comfort" food you are less likely to over do it.
 
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