The wrong explanation of Obesity

The most common explanation for obesity is that obese people eat too much and spend too little, accumulating energy in the form of fat. Because he continues to eat more energy than he expends, he is unable to lose weight. And as long as you do, you will not be able to stop being obese.

Obese people, as a rule, eat and drink too much, regardless of what it is. My girlfriend tells me that, for me, the minimum was to eat for two people and then maybe something else. I felt an uncontrollable need to eat more and more, until I was overtly full.

I cannot deny this point.

But simplifying weight gain to the result of the difference between calories in and calories out reduces obesity to laziness and gluttony.

It's like saying "obese people are lazy and greedy, they are obese because they want to be. If they really wanted to lose weight, they would stop being lazy and greedy and they would succeed!

It's not true!

No obese person has ever woken up in the morning thinking "it's a beautiful day to keep putting on weight".

This "laziness and gluttony" narrative is all too common and convinces us that we have to eat less and exercise more to lose weight. And we try. But we can't: we can't control our appetite and we can't exercise so much that it makes up for what we eat. And we give up, going back into the gain cycle.

Not because we don't want to but because we can't. It's a brutal difference!

For one thing, losing weight based on an increase in exercise is practically impossible. Anyone who has ever been on a treadmill at the gym running knows that the number of calories you burn is very low. It doesn't even make sense.

On the other hand, appetite control is not entirely voluntary but hormonal. It is above all the result of the balance between insulin and leptin. In obese patients, the physiological effect of both hormones is very much altered. There is insulin resistance (by increasing insulin levels and therefore increasing the stimulus to produce fat from carbohydrates) and there is also leptin resistance, which means that the body is no longer as sensitive to its action.

If we take into consideration that leptin is an extremely important part of appetite control, it doesn't take the best detective in the world to figure out that if an obese person is resistant to its action, their ability to control their appetite will be reduced!!!

Note that:

• Increasing exercise is not effective in creating the energy deficit that is advocated as the solution to obesity.

• Appetite control in an obese person is not just a function of willpower, desire or motivation.

So how can you point the finger and say you are obese because you are lazy or gluttonous nor do you stop being obese fighting laziness and gluttony?! That's not how I was able to win the battle, that's not how you will.

To be able to beat obesity, stop thinking it's because you're lazy or gluttonous. It's not.