...I attempt to keep my carbohydrate intake to 50g/day, with a target of zero for "fast" (sugar) carbohydrates. I don't achieve the zero all the time, but I am almost-always under 20g/day of sugars of various sorts (including beer, if I have some.)Guess what? Doing that caused me to lose 60lbs and more importantly keep it off without counting calories at all.
You want to know what else? If I play games with this, and start eating the crap again, the weight starts to go back on. The reason is simple -- I again get hungry, and when you're hungry you have to consciously avoid eating, which is hard.
You can either torture yourself, choose to eat in a way that you don't have to, or you will get fat with a greatly increased risk of all the bad health problems that come with being fat.
Yes, exercise is also important but let's cut the crap, shall we? If you actually measure caloric expenditure from exercise (I did; I wore a Garmin watch with a heart-rate strap for all of my running and biking while the weight was coming off) you will find that only about one pound in three comes off due to exercise. I proved this because I have every single work-out from that time period logged and I worked out a lot.
The rest of the weight comes off because your body regulates its caloric demand down the pie hole; that is, you're not hungry as often and when you are you eat less.
The best part of doing this, by the way, is that when you get to where you should be you won't have to change anything or "stop dieting." Your body knows how to regulate itself and it will slowly stop losing mass when you approach a proper weight and stabilize there without you doing anything differently on a conscious level.
You can argue with the facts if you'd like but the fact of the matter is that these "government stooges" have been killing you for the last five decades and food producers like it this way. How many boxes of Corn Flakes and packages of brownies would they sell otherwise?
Zero!
If you like Diabetes, blindness, chopped off toes and fingers from gangrene, heart attacks, strokes and being so damn fat and out of shape you can't run a half-mile or make it up a couple of flights of stairs without feeling like you're going to die, keep doing what you've been doing...
I was unaware of that, thanks. I follow a “mostly Paleo” style of eating. Meat (all kinds), vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. It works well for me. I’ve also found weight lifting and sprinting to be superior to cardio.
I agree with Denninger. Until I got to be in my fifties, I could eat anything, and as much as I wanted, and maintain my weight at 105 lbs. After I got to 155 7 years ago, I cut bread, pasta, potatoes and sugar and lost 60 lbs. my exercise routine has been consistent for 30 years, so I know it was the food. I still eat the same way I did when losing weight, but have stopped losing. I’m able to stay between 95-100 and haven’t been hungry in 7 years. I will never stop low carb.