I've seen the same thing, it's so weird. My best guess is that most people realize, if only on a subconscious level, how much they are slaves to their appetite, and most people are not REALLY happy with how they eat and how they look.
Now I'm curious, is Intermittent Fasting more popular with rightwinger/libertarian types?? It's the ultimate in "your willpower controls your body." If you believe in your own individual power to improve your life, you believe you can make positive changes.
If you're a lefty who belives it's societal or environmental or out of your control, why even bother trying?
It probably is more right wing only because it is somewhat heterodox. While orthodox science backs the effectiveness and benefits of fasting the orthodox culture is absolutely hostile towards it so it should be more popular among the right who are clearly more comfortable rejecting the mainstream culture.
IF doesn't actually take much willpower. It takes some willpower to get it going but once you are fat adapted it's autopilot. Calorie counting while on a high carb modern diet takes a huge amount of willpower because you're always hungry. One meal a day once you're used to it takes no willpower because eventually you don't even get hungry until meal time, you only have to worry about preparing one meal and it's very difficult to overeat.
The "fat positive" weirdos are half right in rejecting calorie counting because while CICO can't be wrong it takes so much willpower and misery compared to just rejected the modern high carb six meals per day mentality. Where they go terribly wrong is in assuming if CICO doesn't work then nothing will.
I've seen the same thing, it's so weird. My best guess is that most people realize, if only on a subconscious level, how much they are slaves to their appetite, and most people are not REALLY happy with how they eat and how they look.
Now I'm curious, is Intermittent Fasting more popular with rightwinger/libertarian types?? It's the ultimate in "your willpower controls your body." If you believe in your own individual power to improve your life, you believe you can make positive changes.
If you're a lefty who belives it's societal or environmental or out of your control, why even bother trying?
It probably is more right wing only because it is somewhat heterodox. While orthodox science backs the effectiveness and benefits of fasting the orthodox culture is absolutely hostile towards it so it should be more popular among the right who are clearly more comfortable rejecting the mainstream culture.
IF doesn't actually take much willpower. It takes some willpower to get it going but once you are fat adapted it's autopilot. Calorie counting while on a high carb modern diet takes a huge amount of willpower because you're always hungry. One meal a day once you're used to it takes no willpower because eventually you don't even get hungry until meal time, you only have to worry about preparing one meal and it's very difficult to overeat.
The "fat positive" weirdos are half right in rejecting calorie counting because while CICO can't be wrong it takes so much willpower and misery compared to just rejected the modern high carb six meals per day mentality. Where they go terribly wrong is in assuming if CICO doesn't work then nothing will.