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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure it’s as “simple” as calories in and calories out. But what the people screeching about refuse to acknowledge that the body will do everything it can to keep calories from going out and more calories coming in. Our bodies do not want to lose weight. While we might feel our best at a lower weight, are bodies aren’t programmed to lose weight and keep it off indefinitely. The vast majority of people do not have the Herculean willpower and constant vigilance to overpower a system that wants to get back up to the higher weight. [/quote]

The movement part is where you are wrong. Our bodies do want food and do want to have some fat, so anyone in a major calorie deficit will be hungry often. But they do not want to be sedentary. That’s a huge part of why so many people are overweight—for many people their most movement in a day is walking from their office to the car. That’s why when you can go to big walkable/bikable cities like NYC so few people are overweight. I promise you they’re not all eating low cal diets with pizza and bagels on every corner. [/quote]

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