Can't Lose Weight? It's The Fitness Industry, Not You! Fat Loss In The Age of Information Overload
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Tracy
Can I just say that I hate diet culture? My dr literally told me and my mom to fast, drink meal replacement shakes, Mediterranean diet, and to cut out carbs. Like what? Everything has carbs even fruits and veggies. I-ve been told this by drs my entire childhood and guess what? It never ever worked and I struggled. By watching trainers like u on social media, I learned about tracking calories. It was the only thing that worked. I dropped 40 pounds in 4 months along with just walking. When I try to tell people that they don-t need to cut anything out, they don-t believe me. They think they still need to cut carbs, sugar, red meat, dairy, etc. it-s so frustrating becuz they-re going to believe the dr just because they have a piece of paper hanging above their desk & I really want to help my family and friends. It doesn-t need to be this hard. People make it more complicated than what it really is. --
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Can I just say that I hate diet culture? My dr literally told me and my mom to fast, drink meal replacement shakes, Mediterranean diet, and to cut out carbs. Like what? Everything has carbs even fruits and veggies. I-ve been told this by drs my entire childhood and guess what? It never ever worked and I struggled. By watching trainers like u on social media, I learned about tracking calories. It was the only thing that worked. I dropped 40 pounds in 4 months along with just walking. When I try to tell people that they don-t need to cut anything out, they don-t believe me. They think they still need to cut carbs, sugar, red meat, dairy, etc. it-s so frustrating becuz they-re going to believe the dr just because they have a piece of paper hanging above their desk & I really want to help my family and friends. It doesn-t need to be this hard. People make it more complicated than what it really is. --
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Beau
Yes. When all you do is compare yourself to others at their peak, it becomes mentally taxing and discouraging. I had a trainer for the start of my weightloss journey and she had me either unfollow all fitness influencers or just delete the app completely. The lack of comparison made me realize that the journey is different for everyone. Aside from genetics, obligations, and etc, we all will reach our goal but at different times through perseverance. I didn't need an inspirational quote from a guy or girl posing in front of the dumbell rack or some product to help me gain muscle, I needed to compare myself to myself from yesterday, did I go to the gym, did I workout as hard as I wanted to.
Drop the social media and develop yourselves, everything else is just noise
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Yes. When all you do is compare yourself to others at their peak, it becomes mentally taxing and discouraging. I had a trainer for the start of my weightloss journey and she had me either unfollow all fitness influencers or just delete the app completely. The lack of comparison made me realize that the journey is different for everyone. Aside from genetics, obligations, and etc, we all will reach our goal but at different times through perseverance. I didn't need an inspirational quote from a guy or girl posing in front of the dumbell rack or some product to help me gain muscle, I needed to compare myself to myself from yesterday, did I go to the gym, did I workout as hard as I wanted to.
Drop the social media and develop yourselves, everything else is just noise
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leah
This is so important! There is such an overload of -Do this! Don-t do that! Only do THIS in THIS specific way! - rhetoric when it comes to weight loss, it can be truly stressful and often feels exaggerated. I-ve lost a decent amount of weight over the past year and a half and the point when I was the most successful in doing that was when I wasn-t bombarding myself with hoards and hoards of information, just eating a healthy, balanced diet, working out and researching things here and there as the curiosity arose. I-ve found whenever I get obsessive and try to do everything perfectly, I really struggle to see a mental or physical change. A relaxed, sensible, even keeled approach is the ONLY approach that has proved effective for me!
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This is so important! There is such an overload of -Do this! Don-t do that! Only do THIS in THIS specific way! - rhetoric when it comes to weight loss, it can be truly stressful and often feels exaggerated. I-ve lost a decent amount of weight over the past year and a half and the point when I was the most successful in doing that was when I wasn-t bombarding myself with hoards and hoards of information, just eating a healthy, balanced diet, working out and researching things here and there as the curiosity arose. I-ve found whenever I get obsessive and try to do everything perfectly, I really struggle to see a mental or physical change. A relaxed, sensible, even keeled approach is the ONLY approach that has proved effective for me!
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whatkatyread
There was definitely a time when I felt baffled and overwhelmed an paralysed by all the weight loss information out there. Is fat the enemy or sugar? Should I be low carbing? If diets have been proven not to work then what an I supposed to do? Why is it wrong to eat my exercise calories? Am I wrecking my metabolism by yo-yoing? Is my metabolism bad to start with?
For me the revelation was reading -Conquering Fat Logic- by Nadia Herrman. There is a lot of information (backed up by peer reviewed studies) In the book to be sure. But it all leads to a very simple message: to lose weight create a calorie deficit, eat enough protein and if you lift weights it will help. It was liberating.
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There was definitely a time when I felt baffled and overwhelmed an paralysed by all the weight loss information out there. Is fat the enemy or sugar? Should I be low carbing? If diets have been proven not to work then what an I supposed to do? Why is it wrong to eat my exercise calories? Am I wrecking my metabolism by yo-yoing? Is my metabolism bad to start with?
For me the revelation was reading -Conquering Fat Logic- by Nadia Herrman. There is a lot of information (backed up by peer reviewed studies) In the book to be sure. But it all leads to a very simple message: to lose weight create a calorie deficit, eat enough protein and if you lift weights it will help. It was liberating.
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Edward
Hey -Lucy Lismore,
I'm always so benefited by your videos because you bring us back to solid truth and positive reminders for a lifestyle of healthy living!
My issue with weight loss is so confusing. I'm a 21 yo female and I eat about 1500cal a day. I work out maybe once a week.
I've not lost more than a few pounds over the course of 3ish months, and I wonder if theres something I'm doing wrong? I drink a ton of water and sleep is not the strongest on consistent good hours (6-8hours)
I'd love any advice if yall have any!
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Hey -Lucy Lismore,
I'm always so benefited by your videos because you bring us back to solid truth and positive reminders for a lifestyle of healthy living!
My issue with weight loss is so confusing. I'm a 21 yo female and I eat about 1500cal a day. I work out maybe once a week.
I've not lost more than a few pounds over the course of 3ish months, and I wonder if theres something I'm doing wrong? I drink a ton of water and sleep is not the strongest on consistent good hours (6-8hours)
I'd love any advice if yall have any!
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Annesha
Hey Lucy - I'm recently tried your exercise and I have a issue with your music sound which is very slow so I can't hear that very well so can you please change song system then it'll be helpful. Also you have any stretch marks Lucy because I was a fatty girl 80 kg almost and now I'm 65. But I have lots of marks which is really depressed me I'm working on it but still can you please talk with us about this topic - thank you so much love you so much---
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Hey Lucy - I'm recently tried your exercise and I have a issue with your music sound which is very slow so I can't hear that very well so can you please change song system then it'll be helpful. Also you have any stretch marks Lucy because I was a fatty girl 80 kg almost and now I'm 65. But I have lots of marks which is really depressed me I'm working on it but still can you please talk with us about this topic - thank you so much love you so much---
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Светлана
Thank you for your video. I definitely can relate to everything you said. I think this is quite the same in different domains. I'm learning to dance now and I often feel that 'maybe, I'm doing this wrong. Maybe, I need to know more. Maybe, my knowledge isn't enough and that's why I don't progress fast enough, etc. ' It demotivates me sometimes because it seems everyone except you knows this perfect recipe for improving as fast as possible.
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Thank you for your video. I definitely can relate to everything you said. I think this is quite the same in different domains. I'm learning to dance now and I often feel that 'maybe, I'm doing this wrong. Maybe, I need to know more. Maybe, my knowledge isn't enough and that's why I don't progress fast enough, etc. ' It demotivates me sometimes because it seems everyone except you knows this perfect recipe for improving as fast as possible.
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Ethan
This is so true! This idea of being over saturated with online info applies to other stressors in life, such as college/career information, mental health information, etc. My weight loss is successful right now primarily because I-m focusing on myself and the few online sources that keep me feeling inspired! Thanks for what you do.
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This is so true! This idea of being over saturated with online info applies to other stressors in life, such as college/career information, mental health information, etc. My weight loss is successful right now primarily because I-m focusing on myself and the few online sources that keep me feeling inspired! Thanks for what you do.
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Nolu
Hello Lucy, thank you for the info always very helpful and authentic. I remember looking for you on YT after your very 1st video. I'm glad that you came back: ) I am trying to calorie counting, is it possible to do calorie counting 101 video. just to get a basic idea. thanks again: -)
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Hello Lucy, thank you for the info always very helpful and authentic. I remember looking for you on YT after your very 1st video. I'm glad that you came back: ) I am trying to calorie counting, is it possible to do calorie counting 101 video. just to get a basic idea. thanks again: -)
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Sammy
Thank you so much for posting this! I always get so overwhelmed by advice on weight loss that I end up just doing nothing because the thought of making so many changes seems impossible, but I like the idea of just starting without trying to know everything or do it perfectly!
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Thank you so much for posting this! I always get so overwhelmed by advice on weight loss that I end up just doing nothing because the thought of making so many changes seems impossible, but I like the idea of just starting without trying to know everything or do it perfectly!
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