You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)
While correct and useful advice for some people, this advice is useless for many (I suspect most) overweight and obese people.<p>I&#x27;m on the border of overweight&#x2F;obese. I can lose weight if I focus on losing weight. I&#x27;ve dropped from 100kg to 74kg and back. I&#x27;ve gone back down to 91kg and back. How? Eating less, of course. By counting calories. But here is the problem. Anything below 95kg and my body and mind is hyper annoying, constantly interrupting my thoughts (amygdala?) insisting that I go eat something. It is impossible to program computers when my brain keeps interrupting me. I simply cannot focus on anything other than eating. It&#x27;s like a very slow motion breath hold... eventually you will come up for air. I find life so miserable at those weights that I eventually learned to accept my fate and I&#x27;ll die early I&#x27;m sure, but at least life will feel tolerable until then.<p>Why do some people&#x27;s bodies&#x2F;minds insist so insistently that they eat more when they clearly are already overweight? That&#x27;s the question I would love to have answered. People often postulate the answer lies in the kinds of foods you eat, but I&#x27;ve proven that hypothesis wrong (for myself) many times. Avoiding sugars and fried foods and eating oatmeal, fish soup, salads, fruit and veg with lean proteins...  does not make any weight difference for me, nor does it make low body weights any more tolerable. Sounds great, I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s healthy, but I&#x27;ve proven on myself multiple times that this technique does not work. Only counting calories works for weight loss (actually distance running works for me too), and it always leaves me famished and miserable.<p>Going on a zero-carb diet might work. I&#x27;ve seen success stories. I haven&#x27;t seriously tried it. When I&#x27;ve tried in the past I was craving bread so massively that I caved in.