Gibby!;4634466 said:
The guy going for his Masters Degree doesn't seem to recognize the fallacy of his own argument. less calories in vs more calories out = Weight Loss. You both said the same exact thing. For the majority of people in this country, the simple fact is, make better choices more times throughout the day. And, eat breakfast, which is what I took as all you were saying with the McD's reference. Oi, entitlement. I have this so you can't know what you're talking about because you don't have it (***-u-mption)!
Programs like Weight Watchers try to train you how to eat, but so many people use that point system as way to cheat and eat foods and drink beer and simply don't recognize what the end goal is... It really is sad.
And that's all I was saying. But you know college kids know everything...that is, until they get a flat tire. LOL
Very few people can "cold turkey" their way to fitness. In the end, it's really hard to eat bad foods because they are generally highly caloric, so you get steered to better foods just so you can put more food in your mouth and not feel hungry all the time. It's an evolving process.
Every day people die that are in their 90s, 80s, 70s, and 60s, and for the overwhelming majority of them, there's not a spit's difference in their eating regimens. It's still very much a lottery system.
A cardiologisit lives two houses down from me, and he told me that, more and more, his profession is coming to the conclusion that cholesterol levels are more than 95 percent genetic. He said his patients' cholesterol levels tend to be what they are regardless of what they eat, almost without exception, and that drugs are the only way to control those levels most of the time. And of course, the danger associated with cholesterol is being challenged as well; the thought now is that it isn't the primary reason arteries clog. There are other factors that come in to play.
Nowdays, I eat pretty darn healthy, but I was once the 25 year old who worked out like crazy, put down lots of protein and supplements to augment my workout program, then drank beer and ate pizza at night with the boys and never gained a pound of fat. You get a dillusional sense of fitness in those years.
That eventually caught up with me and I put on about 30 pounds in my 40s. I've since lost it, and it wasn't that hard. Just takes a little time. The key was just knocking down the calories, walking/running every day for an hour, and lifting a couple of times a week for a half hour.
I get frustrated with the "experts" who intimidate people out of starting a regimen. And of course, we live in a world now where there's unbelievably high-calorie, high-fat foods on every corner. Soda is a big part of it, too.
My egg mcmuffin suggestion just blew up here, and it dumbfounds me. It's a wheat English muffin with an egg, a piece of ham and a slice of cheese. That's hardly going to kill you. And it's only 300 calories, as opposed to most drive-through breakfasts that are easily 1,000 calories right out of the gate.
I do the granola and fruit breakfast thing, but that's hard for someone just getting started. I just offered a "gateway" breakfast to better choices later.
