That's the rub & crux right there in the World of The Fat Person--- 99.8% of all advice, suggestions, How-To's, solutions and False Hope come from -either- The Thin or Slightly Pudgified.
I prefer my knowledge and/or advice to come from the inhabitants of the trenches. And there aren't many... so I had to go mostly Solo. Solo is lonely but it serves to create focus and hard-fought/won opinions and solutions. -Scott On Aug 26, 7:03 pm, charlie <cl_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I think not.....and this is coming from an exercise junkie with a > whole foods, half hippie wife and years of trying > everything....weighing my food, portion control, whole grains, calorie > counting, tofu, low fat, largely vegetarian at times, extreme exercise > (do you want me to explain the volume and variety) nothing has been as > effective or as easy for me to stay with as what we have been doing > for the last six months. Compliance is poor because the other methods > don't work as well without extreme and I mean really extreme measures. > Its rather annoying to read comments sometimes from folks that > (presumably) are not battling the problem and I don't mean 20 pounds > of winter fat I'm talking a lifetime of obesity. Think of it in the > reverse......picture a super skinny guy who can't put on muscle no > matter how much he eats and exercises and if he does manage to gain a > few pounds as soon as he stops, he loses the added muscle and becomes > the 98 pound weakling again. I would defy anyone to strap on 100, 200 > maybe as much as 400 pounds on their body and just try to walk up a > hill.......the heavy people who exercise put out a whole lot more > effort than any 160 pound man merrily spinning away on his bicycle. > Sorry guys but this topic is striking a raw nerve with me today > because I don't think many people really understand what they are > talking about......from experience. > > On Aug 26, 2:16 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:11 -0400, Eric Daume wrote: > > > That's the point of the book: this isn't universally accepted. We've > > > been pushed this viewpoint for 30 years, but where's the great > > > downsizing of America? One of Taubes main points is that the science > > > behind low fat/high fiber/calories in/calories out is very, very poor. > > > Perhaps the problem is really that compliance is very, very poor? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
