Learned this from my Gastro too, we have almost no fiber in our diet. She was pretty clear if you're over thirty there is almost a guarantee that as an American you should be on a fiber supplement. I can say that after altering my diet and being on one things are chugging along down there now.

Always start your day with a fiberous breakfast.

Had a lot of movements that made me think I might have IBS. Then I got some metamucil and didn't even have to take it very regularly to see significant and lasting improvements. Guessing some of the crap my gut biome really didn't like ended up getting stuck in there and kept signaling "emergency evacuation required" but it didn't help until some fiber was able to clean it out.

Without going into details, it was a significant difference in my day to day life, not just some arbitrary "% of heart attack chance reduced" (which is still good just not as noticeable unless you're regularly having heart attacks already).

Ooh I only knew about the food stuff. Thanks for the heads up!

you can’t outrun your diet

Sure you can, but it involves regular long distance triathlons and training for them, not running 2k once a month.

CICO is real - I don't think anyone could dispute that in good faith - but it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

What you're eating (and what your food is eating) has such a profound impact on how you think and feel. If you're trying to form an actual food lifestyle for the long run, you at some point have to go beyond calories and look at macro ratios, consider fiber, prebiotics, micronutrients, inflammation etc.

It is true that diet is directly responsible for the vast majority of weight regulation, but exercise is just as important in an indirect manner. 99% of the time you aren't going to burn enough calories to make a significant difference, but regular exercise has significant effects mentally, several of which contribute to make people much more likely to keep on a diet. IIRC, there was a study that showed it being a bigger factor in weight loss, because people who diet without exercise are far more likely to drop the diet, while people who start with just exercise are more likely to pick up and stick with a diet later.

A good run gives you wiggle room for a deficit, though, if you're trying to shed. It's a few extra pieces of chocolate you can eat.

Calaries in and calories out can be a useful tool, but it isn't a silver bullet. I also think that it's important for people to remember when setting a caloric goal that they need to be realistic in the amount of weight that they're going to lose per month.

It's also important to remember that what a healthy weight and size is is bigger than what the media often portrays it to be. Both the social and television. When all he needs to look at all those tabloid pictures of celebrity women sitting down in swimsuits while they're going, "Whoa! Look how fat this person is now!Are they gregnant?" . The reality is that individual may still be relatively skinny. It's just the pose therein. The angle that the camera is taking it and the lighting are just revealing A normal human body With organs.

Obviously there does come a point where someone is a little too big. This is true. But that line is more variable health-wise than a lot of people think.

Yep. I had subtle metabolism issues and just couldn't lose weight at all, no matter what I did. Instead, I would just get increasingly exhausted. It was very confusing. Once I addressed the actual root cause of the issue, I started losing weight normally.

Makes me wonder how many "big boned" people who struggle to lose weight have similar undiagnosed issues?

Agreed.. that said above poster is onto something here about social media and the role it has been playing on health misinformation.

there are people out there with these issues and staunchly refusing the most basic advice about diet and excersize and latching onto the "healthy at every size" logic as an excuse.

The 'outlier' claim is very common now.

While double fisting chocolate and frappes.

But yeah... somehow "it's their body and it's condition" letting them down.

And not just regular white potatoes, you got sweet potatoes and purple potatoes and all kinds to play with.

I'll have to check him out. It was Liam aka plant slant making bean brownies and talking about colorectal cancer that got me