Why dieting doesn't usually work | Sandra Aamodt

am i the only one who doesn't like any of the ted videos?? i feel very bored and not getting anything good out of the box

What a load of Crap

This helped me so, so much.

In simple science terms... eat more, gain weight

eat less, lose weight

do exercise, burn up fat stored in your body

don't exercise, don't burn up fat

dieting never fails, YOU fail.

I haven't watched this video yet but my feeling about diets is this: Diets are made to help sell diet products and pharmaceuticals AND make you feel like a failure. The SAME companies that make make you fat with over processed high fat and sugar foods are key players in the diet craze. Create the illness and then fool you into buying the snake oil "cure" the FDA knows that game only too well. The fact is that since the invention of television, food companies have been pushing unhealthy snacks and sugary CEREAL on us since we were kids by using cartoons and brainwashing. Those companies KNOW that fat and especially isolated processed white SUGAR is highly addictive. Most foods and drinks on the shelves have some form of processed sugar or isolated, hydrogenated fats in them. We have become a people who love fast and convenient and so we eat what is easy...and unhealthy instead of cooking whole organic foods at home. And just like when you take a multivitamin and later pee out yellow because our body can only absorb so much we do the same when we eat these high fat and sugary foods. Our body knows what it normally needs to fuel our walk to the car and then short walk through the parking lot into work and then back EACH DAY. The rest of the fat and sugar is either removed as waste in our daily poo/pee OR better yet it HOARDS it into fat storage just in case we have famine in the future because our ancestors had to deal with weeks and months of little food and our genes still remember that. When I eat a whole foods diet that is mostly made up of fruits, veggies, legumes, nuts, and ORGANIC grains I eat less and feel fuller due to the fiber and water content, and I eat WAY less calories. Better yet IF I over eat, I don't feel disgusting and the feeling goes away quickly. I FEEL satiated eating whole foods and I feel full longer. When I eat high fat foods, I can end up eating the whole bag of potato chips in place of a meal. Each bag contains approximately 14 servings at 150 calories PER serving, which means I eat 2,100 calories at one sitting and STILL DO NOT FEEL FULL...I just feel sick. That same bag of potato chips made from GMO potatoes and GMO corn and canola oil (as a #2 ingredient) and table salt (bad for you too) failed to satiate me so I end up eating another "meal" 1 hour later. This pattern needs to stop. If you want chips, find a healthier brand, learn what the serving size is and calorie of that ONE serving size and mix that with the REAL meal of whole and healthy foods. Dieting is a program used to punish us for something that wasn't our fault. Eat mindfully and eat to live! Don't eat to hate yourself, or punish yourself, or get sick, or die young. Just remember if you had to take a medication (these are poisons btw) you would read the directions and even find out the allergies and warnings before taking them but the SAME group that allows these poisons on the market, (the FDA) is also the SAME group that oversees your food. Food that you blindly eat without reading the label of. They count on you ignoring that label that says that ONE serving is only ONE ounce of chips. ONE ounce of potato chips is roughly what will fill the palm of your hand. Now I find healthier snacks, stick to portion control, and keep in mind how many isolated oils and sugars things have because it's obvious that overweight people are addicted to each of these things, I also do not drink calories or drinks with ANY sugar. Lastly I want to say to anyone reading this, LOVE yourself no matter what weight you are at. NO ONE judges you like you judge yourself. Love yourself but don't love yourself to death with food.

tl'dw:

life is hard. don't try.

eating disorders arise from body image issues. Personally, i think rather than tell them to eat healthy because it makes them the best "thin" they can be, instead, just celebrate their natural body weight and tell them that healthy eating leads to a longer, happier life. I say this because with the media being the way it is, even if they are the most "healthy thin" they can be, they might not achieve happiness because they are not as thin as the media says they should be. For example, I can look at the mirror all day and know im healthy but still feel like I'm too fat because of the media. (And trying to be content with the realization that this is the "best I can be" is NOT possible because that implies that there are people who are naturally thinner and inherently BETTER in that area because they fit the ideal in the media.) Media starts first. (And of course, a HUGE one which she said was changing the environment we have filled with fast food and such. That also starts first.)

This was one of the best videos I have watched! Eat what you want and stop when your full. Having suffered with eating disorders and overexercising, dieting etc. Now I eat what I want, which is actually quite balanced. I don't compulsively exercise anymore, except walk to college, work etc. Somedays i want to eat a lot of chocolate, why not? Other days I find I eat more fruit and vegetables, the body knows what it needs and we need to start trusting it. I am naturally a "normal" weight, but if I was naturally overweight, I wouldn't care. It is about self-acceptance and realizing just because you may be overweight, it does not mean that you are unhealthy. Most obese people I know have/ or are seriously dieting. And the celebrities we see in the media, their weights are always yo-yoing, example Britney Spears, will be overweight, thin, normal weight etc. When perhaps she would naturally be a normal weight if she ate what she wanted and didn't obsess about her weight.

i wish someone showed me this when I was 14 years old...

So the moral of this video is that if you're fat just accept it, eat plenty, and give up. Yeah... No thanks.

Now I am hungry but it is late

if under weight ppl do diet than they can gain weight three time more.got it

Is it only me or anybody else also noticed her dry mouth smacking? That sound is disgusting!

This wouldn't have ur set weight as overweight tho would it? Genuine question 😕 How would u recommend learning to eat mindfully?

I have lost a,whole person 2 years now my.mind has started. cravings starvation feelings. it is a daily issue for me and quite tiring.

Just eat normally, don't be a pig. i am no Adonis but i'm no where near fat either. I get a good walk in everyday and eat pretty balanced meals. I also enjoy beer, chocolate and fried chicken. Balance is all i can say, eat too much salad and you will be skinny and hungry and miserable. Eat too much chocolate and beer and you will be fat, sluggish and miserable. Just relax and enjoy things here and there.

Came here looking for motivation to lose weight. Found this, a video telling me that it's almost impossible. At first I was upset, but I've realized that I did find my motivation. Thank you for telling me I can't. Thank you for giving me another opportunity to prove ignorant people wrong. Thank you for motivating me if for nothing else, than to prove you wrong.

Thank goodness I saw this, I was just starting...

Hmpf that was boring.
I hate people promoting that losing weight is only temporary because your chemistry in your brain will focus on putting it back on. She's basically discouraging people to even try to lose the weight.
I say lose your weight, and then put on some muscles. It will higher your metabolism and burn those extra calories you ate on its own.