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> Maybe try to figure out why you’re feeling hungry.

For a lot of people, the reason they feel hungry is because the way their brain works is that they feel better when they feel full and their life sucks for some reason, so they want to feel better. Hence overeating. It’s entirely a psychological issue for a person like this. Counting calories is not going to help them. In fact, them even being able to maintain a calorie counting regime is downstream of resolving their anxiety/stress/depression. In other words, diet and exercise are not the beginning in the causal chain required for them to lose weight.

And you’re getting absolutely no traction in this thread because you’re completely oblivious to this. Which is common for someone for whom diet and exercise is easy to control.

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>For a lot of people, the reason they feel hungry is because the way their brain works is that they feel better when they feel full and their life sucks for some reason

i am not trying to gain traction, i already know what i am saying applies to vast majority of people and i've yet to come across people who feel 200-300kcal deficit is impossible to apply for them because of their insane appetite.

In most cases where people say this, they are sedentary so their TDEE is very low, applying deficit makes them end up in very low calorie zone where they feel miserable.

Why all these people who are failing can't actually define their fitness journey by putting some numbers into perspective?

because they calculated nothing, they just winged it. I am not denying that there aren't people who cannot control eatingg, there are but they are rare.

You’re like a guy who’s confused why drug addicts don’t just try not taking drugs.

I've helped many people lose weight, become jacked, and go from underweight to a healthy weight.

I regularly hear from overweight and obese people who come to me, “I’m genetically predisposed to being fat.” Yet after a few months, we often make significant progress.

Many of them have also tried “deficit dieting,” and it didn’t work for them. But when I looked more deeply into their methods, I found they had calculated their maintenance calories incorrectly.

They were running huge, unsustainable deficits. They weren’t doing any Zone 2 cardio, which is an easy way to boost maintenance calories, and most of them were largely sedentary.

Many times, their diet consisted mostly of packaged, processed foods, and they weren’t eating enough protein or healthy fats or vegetables.

Simply fixing these issues led to major transformations. I’ve yet to come across someone who is truly resistant to these changes.

I do not doubt existence of people who simply cannot sustain even a small deficit or people who have no control over their diet but i've among 1000s of people i worked on i never found even 1 such person.

I keep an open mind maybe i'll eventually find such person, so far i've not.

Pretty much everyone can make significant progress in a few months. That’s not the problem being solved.

With sustainable approach they stay around 15-20% Bodyfat (for males) for long time spanning several years, very few relapse and when they do they know what they gotta do.

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