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Why Is Dieting So Hard and Confusing and Frustrating? – Part I
Welcome subscribers and stumblers! If you’ve ever been confused about why you can’t lose fat — or why you keep losing fat and then regaining — if you’re perpetually perplexed, then I recommend that you read the following blog post … Continue reading
Yearning for the “Big Shhh”
There is a fun little game I fantasize about playing, if/when I ever get invited onto a cable news show as a guest, and I get locked into a debate with some angry idiot blowhard. I will wait patiently for … Continue reading
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The Essence of the Obesity Debate
It all comes down to this: Does “overeating” make us fat? Or does “overstoring” make us fat? The choice is a binary one. I choose choice #2. Because choice #1, while obvious sounding enough, is preposterous. It’s like saying the … Continue reading
A Brilliant Post on Calories That You Must Read Now
Do Calories Matter?
The Essence of the Big Diet Lie That’s Made You Fat (and Kept You That Way)
What “counts” is NOT how many food calories you eat… it’s how many calories your FAT CELLS eat. There’s a difference! And that difference makes all the difference.
The “Dieting Made Easy” Lie
The lure of the “dieting made easy” promise is so, so seductive. We all want to believe in magic belly fat cures. For some of us, the possibility of magic is the only thing keeping us going. Ask yourself: how … Continue reading
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Create a Calorie Deficit to Lose Fat, You Say? What About These Rats Who Starved to Death OBESE?
All diets boil down to calorie control, or so you’ve been told. You need to EAT LESS food, BURN OFF energy through exercise, or, ideally, BOTH. The prize for success? All that nasty excess flab will finally “melt off.” But … Continue reading
The Black Box Is NOT Just the Atkins Diet Reheated
Let there be no mistake: I believe the late, great Dr. Atkins and his many predecessors, contemporaries and successors got it RIGHT. Carbs are basically the problem. But the Black Box model is not just yet another attempt to push … Continue reading
What in tarnation are we supposed to “count” if not calories?
A Vastly Simplified Model of What’s Inside the Black Box (The Pretty Lines are Feedback Loops and Stuff Like That.) Instead of “Calories,” We Really Should be Counting All This Crap. YIKES!!
