Quote Originally Posted by Matt0520 View Post
Yep! I've helped a few friends and they're baffled when they ask me how to lose weight and I tell them "eat more". Everything in the body is in balance, if you starve yourself, the body down-regulates your metabolism while also triggering more fat storage.

I like the broccoli comment earlier, don't put salt or butter on ______ and see how much you eat. You'll be amazed how it's hard to stuff your face when you're not hijacking your pallet with add-ons. Case in point: I destroyed a whole bag of sweet potato chips last night without even realizing it.

I used to sell to food manufacturers and I was amazed at how much sorcery goes into the flavor profiles, ingredients, etc. of our food. And it's all designed to make us eat more and actually shut down the hormones (ghrelin/leptin) that should be released to tell us to stop eating.



BINGO. This is so huge. Cutting out sugar (as well as dairy) has been night and day for me in a ton of ways. It's hard, because it's everywhere (even in vitamins) but it has caused an epidemic here in the US.

Another sugar-related thing to cut out is sucralose, HFCS, etc. Worse than sugar, bc your body doesn't have any idea what to do with it. 100% gets stored. And it destroys your gut.

I work part-time in EMS and virtually every diabetic I've worked with is on diet/chemical sweeteners. Sadly, they never get better.
I also do time restricted eating, climbing and onewheeling really keeps me in shape all winter. Just snowboarded 4 days in Whistler, my legs held up..