I’m not disagreeing with your diagnosis of the problem. I think your diagnosis is in part highly speculative, but I’m not too concerned with that. You are correct that motivation is a major factor. I’m disagreeing with your proposed solution, which you highlighted in italics under a section labeled solutions:
If you are fat (or skinnyfat), and struggle with the motivation / discipline to exercise, I can help you. Forget fitness and exercise and start a sport you like.
Which you are proposing as a solution for:
I am working from a “nothing special happens, normal office career, no challenges” assumption here.
I’m saying this is wrong. A typical casual sports club won’t allow most people to burn nearly enough calories to bring about significant weight loss during the course of a regular season. Most of this weight will then be gained back in the off-season. This is why many people on those teams are fat. The best solution for the office worker is to switch to a stand-up desk. The second best solution is to eat more vegetables. Sports teams require a much bigger commitment than is actually required to meet basic fitness goals, which can be done with as little as 30 minutes a week of exercise.
Basically, I view weight loss like this:
50% NEAT
40% Diet
10% Exercise
Your article reads like this:
98% Exercise
2% Diet
0% NEAT
Anybody relying on your advice is going to have a very skewed perception on how to lose weight.
Sports teams require a much bigger commitment than is actually required to meet basic fitness goals, which can be done with as little as 30 minutes a week of exercise.
I don’t know how to explain it better. You need to feel good, and feel proud about yourself to make the kinds of changes you say. This is what sports do. Put you in a I-am-a-hero mood which enables you to change these things. The calories burned is a remote extra.
Example: most of my own fat comes from alcohol and the burning hunger that creates, currently I am on day 5 of zero booze, compared to my, probably strongly addicted, 2 liter beer a day habit. I know that if I was not doing boxing for months now I had no chance to make this change, I hated myself too much and felt too bad and too weak to resist. Boxing made me find this inner strength and pride and self-approval to deserve a positive change.
My example is not very typical but replace booze with sugar/choco and junk food, or overdosing on standard homecooked food until sleepiness, and now we are closer to typical cases.
BTW fitness is not simply weight loss.
Your article reads like this: 98% Exercise 2% Diet 0% NEAT
No, the point I am trying to drive home it iss 90% psychology, 90% things that happen inside your head and the other three happens after. Sport is self-esteem training, in a way, although this is not the only psychological factor created by it.
I’m not disagreeing with your diagnosis of the problem. I think your diagnosis is in part highly speculative, but I’m not too concerned with that. You are correct that motivation is a major factor. I’m disagreeing with your proposed solution, which you highlighted in italics under a section labeled solutions:
Which you are proposing as a solution for:
I’m saying this is wrong. A typical casual sports club won’t allow most people to burn nearly enough calories to bring about significant weight loss during the course of a regular season. Most of this weight will then be gained back in the off-season. This is why many people on those teams are fat. The best solution for the office worker is to switch to a stand-up desk. The second best solution is to eat more vegetables. Sports teams require a much bigger commitment than is actually required to meet basic fitness goals, which can be done with as little as 30 minutes a week of exercise.
Basically, I view weight loss like this: 50% NEAT 40% Diet 10% Exercise
Your article reads like this: 98% Exercise 2% Diet 0% NEAT
Anybody relying on your advice is going to have a very skewed perception on how to lose weight.
I don’t know how to explain it better. You need to feel good, and feel proud about yourself to make the kinds of changes you say. This is what sports do. Put you in a I-am-a-hero mood which enables you to change these things. The calories burned is a remote extra.
Example: most of my own fat comes from alcohol and the burning hunger that creates, currently I am on day 5 of zero booze, compared to my, probably strongly addicted, 2 liter beer a day habit. I know that if I was not doing boxing for months now I had no chance to make this change, I hated myself too much and felt too bad and too weak to resist. Boxing made me find this inner strength and pride and self-approval to deserve a positive change.
My example is not very typical but replace booze with sugar/choco and junk food, or overdosing on standard homecooked food until sleepiness, and now we are closer to typical cases.
BTW fitness is not simply weight loss.
No, the point I am trying to drive home it iss 90% psychology, 90% things that happen inside your head and the other three happens after. Sport is self-esteem training, in a way, although this is not the only psychological factor created by it.