• D6fer said on Oct 03, 2008....

  congrats on your success with the dieting! I hope that you arent using that method though.

• OscarB said on Oct 03, 2008....

  Thanks... nope, I have changed my diet dramatically though, to mostly vegetarian.  AND... no more junk which was what I used to live on. 

• UnsmoothOperator said on Oct 20, 2008....

  the way we treat overweight people in our society is counter-productive. This stems from a multitude of different scientific fields coupled with interests from big companies.
  
  Misconception num1 : we know how to make you loose weight.
  False, there has not been a single method, diet, lifestyle, or therapy that has been shown to decrease weight significantly for more than 5 years.
  
  Misconception num2: diets will make you lose weight.
  Biologically, you cannot f**** more than going on a diet. There are regulatory mechanism at work in your body to regulate how much food you intake. What happens when you go on a diet is counter productive: You feel more hungry, your body's activity level will go down. The first one is most important because of a chemical that if I recall correctly is named Leptin. The core of the argument stems from research demonstrating that the Lowest amount of hunger experienced by people that had lost weight due to a diet was the Higher amount of hunger experienced by those same individual before they had their diets. Re-read what I just wrote. The second argument is bluntly explained as people futile attempt to over-rule the survival mechanism of their body with their will power....the former wins.
  
  Misconception num3 : Fundamental attribution error
  People assume that appearance is an indication of the quality of the person's character.....beautiful people are more sociable and honest for example - which leads us to our
  
  Misconception num4: Self-fulfilling prophesy.
  We subconsciously create the events we perceive. By treating people a certain way, we make them behave the way we want them to.
  
  Then there is a whole lot of issues with the way we are motivating people to lose weight...extrinsic motivation(keeping up appearances), comparison to the BMI scale, which was never created to measure the healthy weight of someone...there are healthy variations in weight that the BMI scale does not take into consideration...then theres the interests of the weight loss industry + the fast food industry that thou shall not speak of...basically making any step towards large scale health measures really hard to accomplish(i.e. proving that cigarettes cause cancer only took 40 years in the eyes of everyday joe)
  
  anyways...I applaud what you did as a successful personal goal you set for yourself. People do comment too much
  I am 6ft 2 and weight 145 pounds....you would be suprised to know that the 60 % of people I meet that find an original way to tell me am I skinny and need to gain weight, are  not pleasant to hear - but it is reality.
  

• OscarB said on Oct 21, 2008....

  Hey Smooth...wow, thanks for that.  Very interesting... especially misconception number 2.  I need to read into that as it fascinates me... BTW do you know anything on the biochemistry of anorexia?  I was told that at some stage of the process chemicals eventually take over making it virtually impossible to recover or even recognize there is a problem.  

• UnsmoothOperator said on Oct 21, 2008....

  Anorexia nervosa is one disease were having a pitiful time trying to cure...its interesting that I have studied it awhile back but I cannot seem to remember much details about the bio - perspective of it unfortunately.
  
  and im super tired right now...might not be the best time.
  

• UnsmoothOperator said on Oct 21, 2008....

  Before I forget, there is some promising new research on the bowels..some call it the second nervous system...thats all i know about that though - i scratched the surface only.

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