Dash wrote:
Yeah definitely. I mean honestly if you're really over weight almost any changes you make will help. I have a lot of sympathy though because there is so much bad info out there. Some people eat low fat products and maybe some Kashi cereal and some whole grain breads and cereals, maybe even some tofu or whatever and think "hey I'm doing good." All those grains and especially the bread is just making it way harder on yourself I think. The low fat stuff is filled with sugar. It's just bad all around.
Then you're told to eat at a deficit, AND work out hard which makes you hungrier, and you eat those fattening foods that some people tell you is just fine. It's a mess.
So definitely sympathy for people who legitimately try, and fail. If you never put in an effort, well then nobody to blame but yourself.
That's something that people don't really get the message on is the "diet and exercise" thing. It does not mean "go on a diet and get some exercise"; it means "eat a healthy diet and get some exercise."
The other problem is that it ties exercising to dieting. Even if you insist on eating total crap all the time, exercise is still good. People also need to want to accomplish something with exercise, otherwise it's just a chore. For me, needing to pass a physical fitness test makes it a lot easier to go out and exercise. If I had nothing to accomplish besides "better health" I wouldn't to it, because I don't enjoy the actual exercising part of it.
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