I've seen kickback against 'food policing' when parents point out that taking the food from the child is theft, and that unless the school replaces it - with a more healthier item for instance - then the child will be going without food.
I am far better on calories than I am on sugar and fat content. Almost any person who has ever been on a diet of any kind knows what calories are, as opposed to 'what percentage of fat and sugar should I be eating', simply because it's an easier method of working out what you can eat. Once you get into TDEE and all that it gets trickier, but the daily calorie requirement of men and women (broad brush as it may be) is printed on practically every food item. Fat and sugars are harder to quantify, and even telling someone something is 100% fat won't stop them eating it. However, telling them that it contains more calories than their entire daily allowance just might.
If you ate just lard for a while, you'd lose weight. 100% fat diet, no carbs.
You would probably die of malnutrition though.
No it won't. People know damn well a Big Mac meal is more calories then they should be eating in any day, let alone a single meal. They still do it.
I'm not talking about Big Macs though (which already have the calories displayed). I'm talking about small things, things that people consider a harmless 'snack'. Take a chocolate hobnob for example. The calories per 100g will be displayed on the packet. I have never weighed a hobnob. The packet will tell me that 100g would give me nearly 500 calories. I can safely ignore that, because I don't think I will eat 100g worth (whilst having no idea how many biscuits 100g might be). So I will eat, say, two biscuits and reassure myself that it's nearly no calories, it's only two biscuits after all.
First, I agree with all of that, but you're going on the assumption people have absolutely no idea what-so-ever that there's 200 calories in 2 Hobnobs. I doubt anyone in Britain is that clueless. They know damn well that 2 Hobnobs are 200 calories and eat 10. No, that's not it....
The only thing fatal to weight loss is to stop being mindful of what goes in your mouth. Both carbs and protein have 4 calories per gram; fat has 9 calories per gram. But there a whole lot more to it than that; protein takes longer to digest than carbs. If you're hungry for a snack and pick up a bag of chips, you'll be hungry again within an hour or 2. Eat a can of tuna fish and you won't be hungry for hours.
First, I agree with all of that, but you're going on the assumption people have absolutely no idea what-so-ever that there's 200 calories in 2 Hobnobs. I doubt anyone in Britain is that clueless. They know damn well that 2 Hobnobs are 200 calories and eat 10. No, that's not it....
You highlighted the real reason, however; willpower. Most people lack the willpower to stop eating after one serving (raises hand) and also lack the willpower to run two miles (raises hand) hence, the obesity crisis.
You'd think if they were that depressed and anxious, they'd eat less wouldn't you? But no, we've allowed ourselves as a society to see food as comfort and it's much more socially acceptable nowadays to see a shopping cart filled with fattening food than it is to see a grocery cart filled with alcohol.“Doctors and nurses often “weight-shame” people who are overweight or obese, leaving them feeling anxious, depressed and wrongly blaming themselves for their condition…”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/10/obese-patients-weight-shamed-doctors-nurses
maximus otter
Depression, like neuro-divergence, affects people differently. And food-related mental issues can be so deep-seated from childhood that they're hard to shake. It is partly education ... but of the generation preceding the victim. How much better to educate an overweight generation in order to prevent a future lot growing up with avoidable health issues. Like a generation of smokers being educated about the health dangers, preventing their children from taking up the habit.
Per serving.“There’s none so blind as he who will not see.”
There is one of these -
- on the side of every item of foodstuff in the shops. Anyone who claims to be surprised at the calories in a Hobnob is either illiterate or being conveniently disingenuous.
Another issue is that we have one group of lavishly-paid government employees nagging us about obesity, and a second equally lavishly-paid bunch lecturing us about “body positivity.”
Wobblebottoms need to be hugged less, and to be told more often, “You’re a fat bastard and it’s all your own fault. Eat less; move more!”
“Doctors and nurses often “weight-shame” people who are overweight or obese, leaving them feeling anxious, depressed and wrongly blaming themselves for their condition…”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/10/obese-patients-weight-shamed-doctors-nurses
maximus otter
I find that the 20 minute rule really works.
And eating and drinking whilst walking seems to be far more prevalent than it was at one time.
