I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone who consumes a diet under 1,000 calories a day being fat. I have been a part of an over-eating support group for the last year and have seen many in the group who were obese change their lives.
>>I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone who consumes a diet under 1,000 calories a day being fat.<<
I have. I watched my niece do it. Sooner or later when you go back to eating normally (like with bread), you gain weight. Most times, more than what you took off. How long can one eat only 1000 calories? It has to be forever.
The problem is that diets fail. Eventually, one’s body gets used to an amount of calories. Plateaus happen. People are eating salads and not losing a pound. One only has so much time to exercise.
So for some people, the eat less/move more formula works. When one has to lose 20 pounds, it works.
When one is staring at hundreds, there is something else going on.
my girlfriend consumes 1000 calories a day and does 30 minutes of cardio on a elliptical and she has been at it for 4 months and hasn’t lost more than 5 lbs. she has hyper or hypo thyroid issues? I swear she drinks water by the gallon and eats like a bird, does weights and cardio and can’t loose hardly any weight at all. I think she weights about 150 and is 5 feet tall. It is sad to see her work so hard and deprive herself of so much for such dismal results. Is there nothing they can do for a bad thyroid....the meds don’t seem to help at all although she says if she stops taking them she gains weight...the math just doesn’t add up!
There is non “one cause” of obesity. There are a variety of causes, from simply lack of self-control, to dietary choices, to genetics, to viral infections. Even heart disease has multiple causes, including viral causes. Medical research is not an exact science, and there will never be a “magic pill” that solves all conditions, with no repsonsibility on the part of the individual.