Numerous scientific studies show that small caloric changes have almost no long-term effect on weight. When we skip a cookie or exercise a little more, the body’s biological and behavioral adaptations kick in, significantly reducing the caloric benefits of our effort.
You know what that means, right? Obviously, we should eat all the cookies we want and lounge around playing video games all day!
“I’m not saying throw up your hands and forget about it,” Dr. Friedman [a molecular genetics researcher] said.
Oh. Well then, shut up.
Ignoring my petulant outburst, he then goes on to say,
“Instead of focusing on weight or appearance, focus on people’s health. There are things people can do to improve their health significantly that don’t require normalizing your weight.”
Leaving alone the issue of what normalized weight is when we're constantly hearing that everyone in the whole country is morbidly obese and on the verge of death (I mean, if that's the whole country than isn't that normal?), I actually like this advice, even if it does deprive me of license for extremes of behavior.
Hey, just move around as you can, and eat a variety of foods as you can, because it's healthy for bodies to move and eat foods, not because it burns or saves x number of calories.
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