Fatlogic reddit featured plenty of fitness magazines advice and articles that are pseudoscientific feel-good bullshit setting the reader for failure ( the point is to mock the fatlogic ).
Crash diets to lose X pounds ( of mostly glycogen and water weight in a ridiculous timeframe ) before "eating normal again" ( if your "eating normal" made you fat, you'll get fat again after the crash diet. And buy another fitness magazine. )
"Slow metabolism / metabolic damage" pseudoscience laced with misrepresentations of the trivial difference so the reader externalizes responsability and seeks "tricks and hacks" and magic cures the magazine proposes.
"Can't lose weight? You're actually not eating enough!" (How stupid can people be?)
Claims that CICO dosen't work and instead you need their guidance, because people don't need their magazine if they figure a food scale and the Cals/100g written at the back of everything is all you need to manage your weight.
Magic foods and rituals that will totally break the laws of thermodynamics in either direction, you NEED to know their secret otherwise you'll accidentally eat a cashew past 3PM, break your metabolism and gain 5 pounds.
Don't look at the back of the package of the food you eat or search-engine the nutritional info of what you eat, buy their magazine!
Nutritionists/Dietitians do too. You should have seen the flyers my father got after his taxpayers funded meetings with one to learn to manage his T2 diabetes.
It's like they tried to make it as obscure, complex and innefective as possible. A points and trade system that only vaguely adressed portion sizes in no meaningful way. Told to eat stuff he hates instead of educating him on how to mesure and limit what he does want to eat.
It failed, of course. ( Though you can't help someone who has no intention to change. )
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Fatlogic reddit featured plenty of fitness magazines advice and articles that are pseudoscientific feel-good bullshit setting the reader for failure ( the point is to mock the fatlogic ).
Crash diets to lose X pounds ( of mostly glycogen and water weight in a ridiculous timeframe ) before "eating normal again" ( if your "eating normal" made you fat, you'll get fat again after the crash diet. And buy another fitness magazine. )
"Slow metabolism / metabolic damage" pseudoscience laced with misrepresentations of the trivial difference so the reader externalizes responsability and seeks "tricks and hacks" and magic cures the magazine proposes.
"Can't lose weight? You're actually not eating enough!" (How stupid can people be?)
Claims that CICO dosen't work and instead you need their guidance, because people don't need their magazine if they figure a food scale and the Cals/100g written at the back of everything is all you need to manage your weight.
Magic foods and rituals that will totally break the laws of thermodynamics in either direction, you NEED to know their secret otherwise you'll accidentally eat a cashew past 3PM, break your metabolism and gain 5 pounds.
Don't look at the back of the package of the food you eat or search-engine the nutritional info of what you eat, buy their magazine!
Nutritionists/Dietitians do too. You should have seen the flyers my father got after his taxpayers funded meetings with one to learn to manage his T2 diabetes.
It's like they tried to make it as obscure, complex and innefective as possible. A points and trade system that only vaguely adressed portion sizes in no meaningful way. Told to eat stuff he hates instead of educating him on how to mesure and limit what he does want to eat.
It failed, of course. ( Though you can't help someone who has no intention to change. )