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Read the nutrition labels.
Many of them are scary.
Keeping a food diary for a week is petrifying; adding up the calories at the end of the day.
Change what you can, do the diary again next month.
Repeat as necessary. And this is for the lucky people with good metabolism.
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I was just thinking there are probably a few things in her 2005 wardrobe I wouldn't mind taking off her hands. I wonder where she makes her army of assistants hide her thin clothes so she won't be upset by them?
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That will explain why it's inherited, and why it's very hard to change your body weight without drastic surgery. Or Adderall.
12/09/08
1) Not moving your body enough.
2) Not shutting your pie hole enough.
End of story.
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Not quite.
We know that any one person will metabolize different nutritional components differently at different times of the day, of the year, of their life. There is so much that we don't yet understand about the disparity in nutritional absorbtion within each person. We certainly have no clue about the differences between people.
Don't be so glib. Anyone with any actual knowledge about the subject doesn't claim to fully understand it. Why should you?
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At the end of the day, the reason MOST PEOPLE are overweight is that modern life makes us eat lousy food and sit around (as I suspect many who are reading this are doing).
If you don't like glib, take it over to Overeaters Anonymous. It is a designated snark-free zone.
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I feel for Oprah. I really do. I think many of us have been there. I do feel confident with all her money she could get better advice, though.
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I'll wager a guess that she'll loose the weight this year, for it only to creep back on with two years. And then the cycle continues.
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(Sorry. Bad spelling makes me homicidal,much like the Hills.Feel free to beat me up about something now)
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Many people's bodies aren't yet equipped to digest bread very well, they lack the proper enzymes for doing so. Of course, the food industry isn't going to tell you that because grains, cereals, and the like help them fill out processed foods so they can sell you more of less.
Traditional foods are meat, veg and ferments.
Baby boomers and the generation immediately preceding are prone to more degenerative diseases than every before. Why? The western diet. People used to die of old age, now they die of cancer, heart disease, etc. The reason is they have been eating cereal grains and sugars that are not natural foods for most human bodies. When people ate lamb stew with potatoes, and polish sausages with kraut, and dried fish with miso, their bodies were awash in nutrients. Not so anymore.
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Furthermore, you totally ignored the issue of pollution/contamination which has certainly caused new diseases and conditions, or exacerbated others (such as asthma).
Then, you can't forget the impact that changing our lifestyles has had on our overall health. Cars! Desk jobs! We're not as active as we once were.
But sure, let's just blame BREAD!! Evil, evil bread.
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But when a big girl like me says, "I don't eat that much, I'm fairly active, and I can't lose weight," they say I must be sitting in front of the TV eating Goobers and pork rinds all day, every day. And if I dare bring up "genetics" or "metabolism" it's a cop-out for my own failings as a human being.
Fuck your double standards, people!
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I bet someday they'll conclusively pin it all on some weird variable, like whether you were fed off a metal or rubber spoon as a baby. Childhood weight does seem to be a factor. People who were overweight as kids seem to have more trouble dropping weight and keeping it off.
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I don't know if 200 pounds for Oprah is a health risk, but I think she looks odd in the "before" pic. Maybe somewhere in between is her ideal weight.
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Our anguish is understandable. But we don't stick our pictures on the cover of a monthly magazine.