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I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective 

According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.

I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…

tag yourself with your living place’s population and what youre classified as. im 278,508 city boy

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There are some very angry people in my notes and inbox this week. Apparently,  I am “toxic” and “evil” because I reported the results of 50 years of weight-loss research. They are mad because the research definitively and conclusively demonstrates that long-term maintenance of weight loss is virtually impossible. They also think I am “delusional” because I criticize the medical establishment for keeping this fact a secret from the general public.

The truth is that the ineffectiveness and harmful nature of intentional weight-loss is well known within the scientific and medical communities. If pressed, most doctors will affirm that their clinical experience conforms to the scientific results: Basically everyone who loses weight will go on to regain that weight within 3-5 years. In 75% of cases, they will regain more weight than they lost. 

This knowledge is why doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except oops, that doesn’t work either. Oh, and it causes death,  addiction, malnutrition, and suicide. Whoopsie daisy.

Diet culture is fucking toxic. And people deserve to know the truth.

You are wrong!!! All you have to do is try xyz and you can lose weight!!

I will believe claims like this when you show me a meta analysis of at least 10 random and controlled experiments, published in a high caliber empirical journal. That is the burden of proof. I provided such proof of my claims (indeed, the first two links I provided reference multiple meta-analyses supporting my claims). Now it’s your turn.

Apparently my first link does not work. Here is another. And another. And the citation, it is readily available from google sources.

Mann, T., Tomiyama, A. J., Lew, A. M., Westling, E., Chatman, J., & Samuels, B. (2007). Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: Diets are not the answer. American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. PMID: 17469900

Janet Tomiyama is in my department and does really awesome work on the impacts of weight stigma. She did a longitudinal study of girls through childhood and into adulthood and found that, controlling for baseline BMI and other important factors, the main predictor of a child being overweight as an adult was actually the amount of body shaming a girl was subjected to at 10 years of age, especially if it was from her father.

Janet has a whole bunch of work showing that body shaming/weight stigma causes people to gain weight, because it stresses you out and our bodies are programmed to self-preserve when stressed, which means holding on to any calories we consume by converting it to fat (since, evolutionarily, stress often meant food scarcity). If you’re interested, look up her COBWEBS model.

And as for doctors? My old roommate, one of Janet’s grad students, ran a study at a medical conference on obesity where she had doctors complete the IAT (the implicit association test) to measure their implicit biases against obese people. And guess what? They’re biased af.

Oooo, this sounds super interesting. It makes sense with what I’ve experienced with stress - it makes me feel more tired, which means I’m less physically active, which means that I burn fewer calories, which means that more of the calories I consume can be stored.

I wonder if there’s also a demonstrated physiological connection between stress and hunger. I know both are influenced to some degree by hormones.

Looks like it. One quick Google search search brought me this: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/why-stress-causes-people-to-overeat

And the hateful responses to the OP are because people are having cognitive dissonance. They are lashing out because there is proof that an idea that they have not only internalized but invested in is not what they have believed all along. So rather than accepting the new information and adjusting their mindset accordingly, they refuse empirical evidence even if that’s irrational. It’s less uncomfortable to attack the new information than to let go of wrong but familiar beliefs.

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