> most people overestimate their required calorie intake
It's not something so mechanical as this. For obese people, our /bodies metabolic system/ overestimates our required calorie intake and causes us to feel the pangs of hunger far past when we've consumed a sufficient amount of calories. It's not a conscious choice to overeat, nor is it something that takes effort to do. I ate like a normal person while traveling around the world, walking 10 to 15 miles per day, and going to the gym 3 times a week for an hour, and I still gained back 40 pounds over the course of 18 months (nearly 20 of it in the first 6 months) after going off a monitored, strict calorie restrictive diet.
My actual daily caloric intake need was around 1200 kcals, exceeding this isn't hard to do, and keeping to it was a daily struggle that wasn't possible to maintain while traveling when I could no longer strictly control all the food I ate or even know how many calories it was or what its ingredients were. If I was to guestimate, I'd say I was consuming between 2500-3000 kcals daily while traveling, and this was sufficient to gain almost all of the weight I lost over 7 years back in a matter of months.
This is the reality of being obese. It's not like you choose to be fat, or you choose to over eat, or even that you're over eating to the point of gluttony, it's merely that your metabolism needs far less calories than it believes it needs, so if you simply eat a normal amount when you are hungry, you will be fat, guaranteed.
The reason GLP1 agonists work so well is that they actually change how your body's metabolism reacts, and make it so you no longer feel hungry constantly. In fact, you have to force yourself to eat sometimes or you'll end up having the effects on not eating often enough. While taking a GLP1 agonist, reducing or maintaining weight is not the same struggle as it is without medical intervention.
I counted calories and religiously recorded all of my physical activity and food and water intakes using very technological means tied into MyFitnessPal for almost a decade. It was not for lack of effort, dedication, or knowledge that I gained back weight or realized that I was not going to succeed for a lifetime without medical intervention. It's simply not possible to rationally fight your base biological impulses when they are fall into your body's basic survival mechanisms. I effectively "tortured" myself psychologically for almost a decade, and the net result was the moment I stopped I gained all the weight back. GLP1 agonists are basically miraculous.
It's not something so mechanical as this. For obese people, our /bodies metabolic system/ overestimates our required calorie intake and causes us to feel the pangs of hunger far past when we've consumed a sufficient amount of calories. It's not a conscious choice to overeat, nor is it something that takes effort to do. I ate like a normal person while traveling around the world, walking 10 to 15 miles per day, and going to the gym 3 times a week for an hour, and I still gained back 40 pounds over the course of 18 months (nearly 20 of it in the first 6 months) after going off a monitored, strict calorie restrictive diet.
My actual daily caloric intake need was around 1200 kcals, exceeding this isn't hard to do, and keeping to it was a daily struggle that wasn't possible to maintain while traveling when I could no longer strictly control all the food I ate or even know how many calories it was or what its ingredients were. If I was to guestimate, I'd say I was consuming between 2500-3000 kcals daily while traveling, and this was sufficient to gain almost all of the weight I lost over 7 years back in a matter of months.
This is the reality of being obese. It's not like you choose to be fat, or you choose to over eat, or even that you're over eating to the point of gluttony, it's merely that your metabolism needs far less calories than it believes it needs, so if you simply eat a normal amount when you are hungry, you will be fat, guaranteed.
The reason GLP1 agonists work so well is that they actually change how your body's metabolism reacts, and make it so you no longer feel hungry constantly. In fact, you have to force yourself to eat sometimes or you'll end up having the effects on not eating often enough. While taking a GLP1 agonist, reducing or maintaining weight is not the same struggle as it is without medical intervention.
I counted calories and religiously recorded all of my physical activity and food and water intakes using very technological means tied into MyFitnessPal for almost a decade. It was not for lack of effort, dedication, or knowledge that I gained back weight or realized that I was not going to succeed for a lifetime without medical intervention. It's simply not possible to rationally fight your base biological impulses when they are fall into your body's basic survival mechanisms. I effectively "tortured" myself psychologically for almost a decade, and the net result was the moment I stopped I gained all the weight back. GLP1 agonists are basically miraculous.