I love how you say that it's not too hard for people to lift weights....... YET, it's so fucking east to not eat sugar and refined carbs!!! Like are you fucking kidding me? Pizza is like half of the entire country's favorite food. A lot of people have a hard enough time going without ice cream in a day, let alone giving it up for extended periods of time.
Incredibly easy to avoid sugar. Just research the alternatives like stevia, monk fruit, erythritol etc. Since you're eating mostly fat and protein, you won't find much you'd even need or want to add sugar to. Pizza is overrated and there's already low carb options for pizza available as there is with ice cream.
What we're beginning to see now is more and more people trying to avoid sugar and that's creating a demand for low sugar/low carb foods that is slowly being met.
I never denied that hormones play a role. They do. And some people are drawn a worse deck than others and have to work a lot harder to maintain their weight.
The biggest problem, by far, is not that some people have drawn a worse deck but that the same information they've been given over and over for decades about calorie in/calories out and keep moving is not only wrong but sets them up for failure time and again. Restrict calories, workout more, lose weight, gain back, wreck metabolism, restrict more calories, work out harder, lose more weight, gain more weight, wreck metabolism more....
Look, the keto diet is the number 1 trending diet. More people are on it than any other diet. And its been that way for several years now. Yet, obesity rates keep going up.
Keto is the # 1 trending diet? You sure about that? Haha. I've seen nothing and nobody that made that claim. More people on it than any other diet? That is pure hogwash. I'd bet the farm that's not true. Don't know where you get that from. It always gets very negative press from the msm.
I just mentioned a page or 2 ago how it was named one of the very worst diets of 2018. Weight Watchers was named the #1 diet to lose weight, you know that diet company that's been around for half a century and totally relies on repeat customers who fail over and over again?
Just because you found a solution to your problems, doesn't mean that it will work for everyone.
Why won't it work for everybody? What makes my body different than their's? We were all built the same way. I've been saying keto and IF just happen to encourage the body to do exactly what it was always meant to do. Working with the way your body was designed to work has got to be a ton better than working against it. I didn't even say one had to do keto to get the positive effects. You could do IF alone, which totally works in compliance with the Feast/Fast way the body was meant to work, and have the same effects albeit at a slower rate cause Keto just amplifies it.
The major problem (despite what you say about it being easy to maintain) it that people can't comply to it. It's too damn restrictive and the number of people that fail and give up on it is high.
Don't know where you get this failure rate from. Even if some do start and give up cause they're too weak, that's no fault of the diet but you are seriously overestimating how many people actually do Keto. It is too extreme for most, so that fact and the fact it gets negative press is enough to keep most away. More come on board as the many success stories are heard but you are way off when you say most, or even anything close to most, are on Keto.[/QUOTE]
And it acts as a double whammy because when you reduce your net carbs to practically nothing, and then give up and take in loads and loads, you put on fat at an faster rate than someone that dieted down with higher carbs and stopped their diet. The studies show this.
Actually, studies show the complete opposite, as I already alluded to. They show people on low carb diets lose 3 times more weight than those on low fat diets. There is no more nutrient dense macro than fat, why do you think 1 gram of fat equals more calories than 1 gram of protein and 1 gram of carbs put together?
Keto also allow more than 20 grams net carbs. It allows for 5% carbs total which, taking in ~ 3000 calories would mean almost twice as many as 20g. How much carbs do you think your body requires? I know it requires fat. I know it requires Protein. Don't think it even requires carbs damn near at all as it's capable of making glucose on its own. But let's stick with this anyway. Green leafy vegetables are very low in net carbs and I eat them almost every day and I never just have 1 serving. It's always about 3 or 4 servings and that even leaves plenty of room for an avocado that's much more nutrient dense than your more popular sugar filled fruits like bananas and apples. Hell, I could even legit fit in half a sweet potato most days even though it's not considered keto. So what better carbs do you think you're getting that I'm not while typical peeps take in over 1000 calories in pizza, chips, donuts, cereal, bread, sugary drinks and all that other sugar filled crap? I don't see where I'm missing out on something that would be beneficial to my body. Sugar is what makes people fat and the worst kind of sugar for weight gain, fructose, is in 75% of packaged goods in the grocery store. It's a bad thing I miss out on that? I don't think so.
