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LOL the other thread's title, has it backwards.
It's not that diet and exercise don't work on obese people, it's that obese people don't work on diet and exercise. It's often (not always) a lifestyle choice. You can't just exercise once in a while, or eat right once in a while. If you want to lose weight you have to do it right all the time, and that takes effort.
Effort to resist junk food made by big corporations that know how the human mind works and target ads and ingredients that make you want to eat more of their junk food. Their ads target the way your subconscious works, their ingredients light up the brain via activating neurotransmitters.
Real, good, healthy food doesn't have that advantage as much, it's much more subdued, but it's a normal amount not the "overclocked" amount in junk food formulated to activate feel good neurotransmitters so it takes conscious effort on your part to make yourself eat it. Once you do it all time or at least most of the time it will reset the neurotransmitter balance, or to put it another way you won't build up a tolerance to those neurotransmitters needing more and more to feel good. Also empty calories don't satiate you for long so you feel you need to eat more seeking the nutrients they lack.
As far as exercise I don't need to tell you why that takes effort.
Your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. It takes effort on the part of your conscious mind to overpower and "program" the subconscious to get it to do what you want. This can work for many facets of life not just the battle of the bulge.
Well that's how I see it. Comments? Questions?
It's not that diet and exercise don't work on obese people, it's that obese people don't work on diet and exercise. It's often (not always) a lifestyle choice. You can't just exercise once in a while, or eat right once in a while. If you want to lose weight you have to do it right all the time, and that takes effort.
Effort to resist junk food made by big corporations that know how the human mind works and target ads and ingredients that make you want to eat more of their junk food. Their ads target the way your subconscious works, their ingredients light up the brain via activating neurotransmitters.
Real, good, healthy food doesn't have that advantage as much, it's much more subdued, but it's a normal amount not the "overclocked" amount in junk food formulated to activate feel good neurotransmitters so it takes conscious effort on your part to make yourself eat it. Once you do it all time or at least most of the time it will reset the neurotransmitter balance, or to put it another way you won't build up a tolerance to those neurotransmitters needing more and more to feel good. Also empty calories don't satiate you for long so you feel you need to eat more seeking the nutrients they lack.
As far as exercise I don't need to tell you why that takes effort.
Your subconscious mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. It takes effort on the part of your conscious mind to overpower and "program" the subconscious to get it to do what you want. This can work for many facets of life not just the battle of the bulge.
Well that's how I see it. Comments? Questions?
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