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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
As much as you might be to loathe something coming from MSNBC, this link agrees with you:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36716808.../#.TwbbqJgTs3Y
I can tell you right now that the year and a half that I have spent staying at 170 has been much, much, much harder than the year it took to get to 170. The last two weeks of December I fell off the wagon. One night I had a Pizza Hut Panormous pizza for supper. I saw a chocolate fudge cake at the bakery regular $14 on sale for $6, so I bought it since it looked so good. Had the whole cake for desert that night. Obviously I can still eat like a 360 pound person.... that would probably make someone that was always 170 pounds very sick. But I have not felt "full" since I started losing the weight. Even after eating the whole Panormous pizza, I felt like I could have another.
So, absolutely, definitely,the best thing is for parents to get their kids started out right. It is far easier to grow up eating right and exercising and being fit through childhood and adolescence and staying thin through adulthood than losing the weight later on in life and keeping the weight off. |
I guess it probably depends on how much weight you're losing, and the reasons for it in regards to the whole feeling hungry thing. I dropped from 235 to 195 (where I've stayed pretty consistently, with the exception of a Hangover 2 style 2 week bender through Thailand) and never really had an issue with feeling hungry, I actually struggle to eat the portions I used to. I think a big difference in my case is I was dropping that weight due to the end of my football career (although it wasn't all muscle to be lost) so I was reducing my activity level fairly significantly. I can't imagine trying to work the combination of increased exercise and decreased calories together without always feeling hungry, heck I've had that issue over the last 6 months or so as I've started to ramp up the intensity of my workouts.
Eating healthy and exercising seems easy, but it's not always that way in reality. I definitely support things like taxing soft drinks and using the funds to provide healthy options in poor neighborhoods or education initiatives. Nobody needs 3 cokes a day, and if they do make them pay an extra 10 cents a pop and use those funds to address what is becoming a major medical issue.