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LOL today's the fat argument day, as opposed to the global warming argument day.
It's amazing how black and white people are in this world about hot button issues that don't affect them, but expect you to be grey and understanding when it does.
Sure, we all need to take responsibility for our own lives, however if you make the mistake of gaining weight in the first place science is proving time and time again that nature is working against you when you try to correct it.
Does that mean if I eat just a minimal amount of food and exercise every single day that I would never gain my weight back...more than likely yes...however I will gain the weight back and then some at some point if I ever slow down in the slightest bit.
Research has shown that as your life progresses like a thermostat your body becomes at different times in your life with a set weight.
For example if weighed 150 as a young man for 10 years that will become the set weight my body is comfortable with, but in my 30's I gain 50 pounds and keep it on until my 40's, then 200 becomes that set weight.
Now in order to see how this affects people, they took a group of people and in the beginning gave them a specific eating plan to maintain their normal weight...they then told them to eat whatever they wanted to. Those people gained weight, about 10-15 pounds. They then told them to go back to their base eating plan and their bodies somehow returned to their normal set weight.
They then put these people on a diet, and they lost 10-15 pounds, once they took them off of the diet, and they went back to the base eating plan...guess what? They went back to their set weight.
What they also found was that when you gained the weight that it was much easier to lose it to get back to your set weight. But once you started to lose weight that your body began to work against you, that it actually took less energy to burn up what you ate.
So yes, diet and exercise are key, but it's an uphill battle the whole way.
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