303Bear said:
Keto. Been doing it for 3 weeks and have lost ~8 pounds. No change in physical activity. Also feel better, sleep better and dont snack at all really now.
Sugar high is shortlived and can be overcome, but it can be a bit miserable for your body to get off of.
Been providing a Keto diet as a side in my office since 2009. Assuming you are male, 3-4 of those first pounds is water weight, also know that when you lose it fast you can also gain it fast (evolutionary protection method, so look at this as a LIFESTYLE change, not a DIET, else you will fail). Keep it up!
Canada was originally right in 1st post, but then is incorrect talking about physical activity being the key in the 2nd. PA is important in maintaining weight, however it is very inefficient at losing weight. 1lb of fat = 3,500-4,000 calories, so someone that is obese with a back/hip/knee/feet blown out from the excess Y axis stress body isn't designed to carry can't move for a few hundred calories, let alone 3k. Just doesn't work. Need to use the furnace you have on you to lose the weight.
To do that we have to change the way we look at food, as another said pyramid is way off and is centered around food companies making $$$. Staying on the outside of the grocery store is exactly right.
I firmly believe soda should be restricted/taxed just like cigarettes/weed/alcohol/etc. If you are on governmental assistance, they should absolutely be restricted to what they can buy as obese people consume >40% more health care dollars than non-obese people do, and we ALL pay for that.
Also, (for right or wrong), when we inevitably move to a single payer system as more remedial jobs are replaced by automation and a large swath of our population is un-employable, I believe our "job" will be to be as sustainable as possible. To do this we must shift responsibility for ones health AWAY from the practitioner, and solely on the individual. If you are overweight, smoke, drink, etc then you are exempt from the single payer system and you go out on your own in private insurance and fend for yourself. We have to quit enabling these people, as we have enough objective evidence that it is getting worse, not better the way we handle it.