"If you legitimately don't consent to the calories, the body has a way of trying to shut that whole thing down." - Todd Akin
Jokes on you I got some sort of undiagnosed malabsorption issues and won't get fat even when I eat burgers and candy and alcohol day after day.
That sounds like a very expensive chronic issue.
Nice superpower.
Sort of and also not. Not getting energy from food also means I have no energy for you know, existing.
So while I might not need to worry about getting fat, I've also nowhere to display not being fat.
I tend to sleep quite a lot. 
eep sleep
Youve prob tried everything but have you tried modafinil, was hyped up as a limitless pill (is nowhere near it ofch) but you dont feel sleepy on it and thats what the army uses it for or used it for at some point.
I can vouch that it works, doesnt feel like a stimulant like adderal or energy drinks, just don't feel sleepy yet can sleep if you choose to.
no no it is not.
being a bag of skeletons that do not like each other, eating 5000 calories a day and losing weight, that is not fun.
Yeah luckily I don't have it quite that bad, (especially after I went on an exclusion diet and slowly added things to a really plain diet and sort of figured a bit what works what doesn't) but, yes, I definitely agree with you. Not fun.
I'd rather be fat and jolly than slim and super cranky from constantly being in some weird state of mild starvation. But it's so mild and I make sure to supplement vitamins and whatnot so none of my basic lab-work is showing anything too far out of the ordinary, so the busy public doctors can't be bothered to look into it since to them everything seems fine. Even when I can show them almost a years worth of literally shit pics, me having taken photographs of my stinky and floating orange poo. (I sent them to a spam-email I have so I don't have to keep them in my phone's gallery.)
I had a massive infection when I was that. It wasn't just the malabsorption with me, but doctors insist you can only have one health problem at a time. I'm down to 3500 now and maintaining a healthy weight, so 👍
I don't want to practice medicine online, but if I had started smoking weed I'd middle school I'd have way more organs than I do now. There's some small literature about it but Jennifer refuses to publish. Thinks she has to wait until I'm dead and we have had that problem before.
I started smoking weed about around 16 or 18. Not often. But pretty daily from my mid 20's at least. Definitely helps with eating and nausea or gi-pain. (Sitting on the toilet for an hour or two is much easier when you also have a bong and a phone with you.)
I don't have a lot of infections and am generally "within normal parameters" as like you say, the doctors can only think there's a single problem at a time. And at least here I always get a new doctor for most visits and I get like 30 min meeting every blue moon.
The public doctors kinda suck for complex, chronic issues. And I can't afford private ones to that extent.
I don't think my malabsorption is quite as bad as yours, but then I also randomly get seizures, to which I've gotten zero explanations for. Tested for epilepsy and had and MRI and whatnot, but nothing. But since Finland is kinda backwards when it comes to cannabis, they blamed it on my "drug use". (Even though I have high CBD strains and they're literally anti-convulsants to a degree iirc.)
omg guys! this actually works!
I was just eating a fat burger for lunch and was getting really full. I wasn't sure how I could finish the rest of it and I just told the calories to fuck off and I was able to finish the whole thing!
Addicted to alcohol: Stop drinking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to cigarettes: Stop smoking. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to crack: Stop smoking crack. You can't control an addiction so you have to completely stop.
Addicted to food: Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don't consume so much of that thing that you're addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser...
The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can't stop eating food. You'll die.
So it's as if an alcoholic has to constantly have just a little alcohol. Or a crackhead has to keep smoking crack, but only every once in a while. No problem, just control yourself...
I'm sure telling people that they're pieces of shit for eating food will fix the problem, eventually. We just have to try a little harder.
That's all true, and it's all pointless.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is or how hard it is. There literally is only one person who can fix your obesity, and it's you. Yes, that's hard. Yes, that sucks. But it's also the only way.
Discussing whose fault it is and what of blame there should be is, at an individual level, completely pointless. There is one person in charge of what you eat, and it's you. Factors may influence it, but in the end, you move the food to your mouth. You are the only person in the universe who can fix the situation, and if you don't, it won't get fixed.
Taking the position that you're a powerless victim of circumstances will just hurt. Admitting that you're obese because you eat too much, and that you can control how much you eat, will help fix your problems.
Every time you hear someone say "it's my thyroid" or "I have PCOS" or "I can't afford the gym", or "I have a food addiction" or "I have BED" as an excuse, you're talking to someone who sees themselves as a victim rather than the person who can fix their problem. All those things might be true, but none of those issues move food into your mouth. You do that, and you can stop doing that because you're a thinking human being and not a seacucumber or a daffodil.
Getting from "I am obese" to "I am keeping myself obese" was very hard too. It requires taking ownership of your mistakes, it requires introspection. And then you go into a long and uncomfortable process of fixing the problem you caused, and it sucks. Losing weight is shit. Feeling hungry sucks, and it sucks 24/7. But damn, losing weight feels amazing and it's all worth it.
The way chemicals interact with dopamine, some of those substances are a LOT harder than others. You just need to change the food you eat. I found fasting easier than meticulous dieting. I had the willpower and was enable to accept the simplicity of simply not eating.
Oh for sure...fasting is waaay easier. That's kinda my point. Fasting is literally not eating.
Unfortunately you can't just do it forever. Well I mean, you can...
Thanks for this, I had an idea about food addiction but that explanation puts it in perspective.
Companies also try to make foods as addictive as possible and as flashy as possible. It's like avoiding the constant casino ads as a gambling addict, but you had to keep stepping into a casino every week forever and only doing low bets.
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The title isn't wrong. Losing weight is an extremely simple process.
Simple doesn't mean easy, though.
In my country, fast food is too expensive, much cheaper to be eating homestyle meals at a roadside shop.
Is that country the US? /s
But seriously, fast food isn't cheap anymore. It's cheaper to go to a real sub shop than it is to go to Subway! Or just make food at home.
When I was younger... you could buy a cheese burger at McDonalds for 1 buck. It's not even that long ago. Like 10 years ago
When I vacationned in the US I was always taken aback by how much fast food used to be cheaper than an actual hearthy meal you cook yourself... Unless you forego the protein...
That's all sorts of fucked up.
I can get a fucking steak dinner for the price a some of the more expensive fast food combos around me. Shit is crazy.
Every fat person on earth already knows that too much food makes you fat.
Yet somehow, even armed with this knowledge, we're all fat.
Curious.
Or move to rural Britain. Food so gross you'd rather starve.
This is a joke but I lost 20 pounds so far just by eating half as much as I normally would.
It's simple math, burn more than what goes in. No tricks, no fad diets, no regimen, eat less, do more.
It is, the trick is it’s easier said than done for people.
It’s tricky to require your brain and overhaul your habits.
I say this as someone who also has lost 25 lbs. there’s a reason people refer to it as a journey.
I say this less to diminish your point and more for support of others who are going through this thinking “man this is impossible but everyone makes it sound easy”. It’s not. It’s a marathon not a sprint.
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