Even if you only have access to garbage food you can still limit your caloric intake. I eat fast food every day I work and I’m a healthy weight. It’s not difficult at all.
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irmoz@lemmy.world 6 months agoIs that really the only scenario you can think of that limits your food choices?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
“It’s easy for me, therefore it’s easy for anybody.”
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 months ago
It’s simple math if you can’t do that idk what to tell you.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
It’s not simple math. It’s biology, sociology, psychology, medicine, etc.
MYCOOLNEJM@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s
“Hmmm this food that I have right now has a lot of calories, maybe I should change it or eat less of it”
VS
“ayyy lmao, it’s the big food industry leaving me no choice, imma destroy this fucking burger”
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 months ago
More like:
“I can spend a ton of executive function thinking about and preparing food in a way contrary to what the food industry and their advertisers, food engineers, psychologist, etc., try to get a person to do while having only a slight chance at losing weight if I’ve already gained it. I’ll probably do so by getting involved in the super scammy diet industry.”
Vs
“I don’t want to spend that much of my life thinking about, preparing, tracking food (maybe because I have an eating disorder/medical issue/mental health issues, maybe because it’s just not worth it to me)”
It’s also not just a choice, it’s dozens of choices every day, forever.
You’re way oversimplifying it. We’re not going to magically get better humans, so maybe changing the systems would be a better way to get results than relying on people and industry to change their behavior (which is obviously not working).