No, it is not junk science. Research about it is published in many serious scientific journals. Just check out Scopus or something. You cannot say that it is junk science just because you do not like the results.

You also seem to not understand it. It does not say that you can escape the law of physics. It also does not say that in my explanation. It says that you energy expenditure goes down if you get below the setpoint. So, eating less becomes less effective. At the same time, you appetite will go up. This makes it very difficult to maintain the weight loss and this is why many people fail to keep the weight off in the long term.

Criticism of any research is possible, of course. However, just saying it is junk and misrepresenting what the theory actually says are not good arguments.

If you disagree, then what is your explanation of why most obese people tend to not keep more than 10% weight off over time without medication or surgery? What scientific evidence is there for that? I would be very interested in hearing about alternative research on this topic.

When you are overweight, it is not a case of just eating less. Eating less has very different physical and psychological effects for someone who is overweight than for someone who is not.

If you are interested in learning something about this, you can check out the setpoint theory of body weight. In short, the body has a setpoint for which weight it should be. If you are overweight, this setpoint is at a higher weight than if you are not. If your weight gets below the setpoint, your metabolism will slow down and your appetite will go up and the body starts to try and do everything to go back to this higher weight. That is why most people are not able to lose more than 10% of their weight in the long term. Often, when they gain the weight back, they gain back even more than they lost and the setpoint might even go up further. It is a neverending struggle for most people. Medication like Ozempic affect this mechanism so it becomes possible to lose weight.

If you want, you can find a lot of scientific papers about this. There is quite a lot of research on this and the setpoint theory is well accepted within the medical field specialised in dealing with weight problems, I believe.

In addition, Ozempic is not only a fat loss medicine. It is also used by people with diabetes to lower their glucose.

Yes, my first psychologist really was terrible. She really made things worse. She just always made me feel like I just should try harder and like a failure. That was the opposite of what I needed.

I was actually much too harsh on myself. I am trying tor learn to be more kind to myself and to take how I feel seriously. It is difficult if you are not used to it, but that helps me really well. My physiotherapist keeps telling me that I only have to do things I want. This sounds like a very basic thing, but it is quite new to me to ask myself "do I want this?" instead of just pushing myself because I think I should.

I am glad exercise works fine you. I think it works for most people. However, I have never in my life felt good after exercise. So, I think that is the difference.

If it helps for you, definitely start doing it again. Maybe you can be kind to yourself too and see how you can make your life easier in another way to have more room mentally to get yourself to start.

I think Fairphone is pretty repairable. It is also quite durable. I have had it for years now and dropped it very often, but it hasn't broken yet.

Not sure whether this is useful to you, but I recognise a lot of what you are saying. For example, the being able to do a job until the newness wears off and it gets boring and the huge difficulty with doing household tasks, etc.

I was diagnosed with CPTSD en intellectual giftedness and this explains my symptoms. I do not seem to have ADHD as I get extra active if I take ADHD medication. Most intellectual gifted people do not believe that they are intellectually gifted. I am still sceptical about whether I am, because I feel far too dumb. So, even if you do not feel gifted, it might still be something to check out if you want.

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I have this and I have CPTSD. However, I am sure that there can be other causes as well.

Thanks! Did not recognise it. :-)

Ik snap niet waarom ze überhaupt mee mochten praten. Wat is daar het maatschappelijk nut van? Het hele idee was toch verslaving tegen gaan door het uit de illegaliteit te halen? Dan hoef je volgens mij alleen met verslavingsdeskundigen te praten en desnoods communicatie-experts over hoe je mensen naar het legale circuit krijgt.

Ik heb ook nooit van hem gehoord en ik heb geen idee wat een Drachenlord is eigenlijk (waarschijnlijk ben ik te oud ofzo). Maar echt supertriest. Lijkt me echt enorm gênant om in een groep te zitten om mensen te bedreigen. Zegt wel echt iets over wie je bent. Ik hoop dat ze hulp krijgen bij de problemen die ze hebben met zichzelf waardoor ze dit doen.

Er werd vroeger ook al veel gekraakt in dat gebied rondom het station. Afhankelijk van wat de redenering is om de huizen weg te halen (zijn ze bijv. niet te slecht om in te wonen of komt er veel meer sociale huur voor terug), kan ik er wel sympathie voor opbrengen.

Van mij mogen ze al hun zetels verliezen, maar om die rede vind ik echt belachelijk. Er zijn genoeg betere redenen om niet op ze te stemmen.