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Sensibly Ginger says:

Weight loss. It’s simple:, if you eat more food than you need, you put on weight. If you eat less food than you need, you lose weight. Your body’s actually quite good at gauging how much it needs. It regulates this by hunger. When hungry, eat. When you’re not hungry, don’t.

Unfortunately, this system has been by passed by very high calorie foods. So the body’s gauge isn’t as good as it was. This is where common sense comes in. Salad, fruit etc = good. Large quantities of cake and sweets = bad. It’s OK to have these things in moderation, but if you have them excessively, you’ll put on weight. Some people are happy with this.

Others moan. If you’ve over indulged, you’ll put on the pounds. To get rid of them you need to eat less, and get some exercise in. This may take a while. For example: fully aware of what I was doing to myself, at uni, I stopped exercising as I didn’t have the time with labs etc, but maintained my high drinking levels. I left uni overweight, such that my mum, said, “Gosh, you’ve put on weight” or as the bar manager said, “Fuck me, you’re a fatty now”. This didn’t bother me, as I knew that, when I graduated, I’d be back on my bike cycling to work, not drink lots every night, eating better, and rejoining a gym. It took me a good year or so, but I lost the weight.

So please people, don’t go spending a fortune on stupid pills, fad diets, or other gimmicky things. If you’re overweight, it’s your own fault (in the exception of children, then it’s the parent’s fault. If you’re a parent reading this and your child is obese, you should be done for child abuse). But, all you need to do is cut down on the pies, fizzy pop etc, get 30 minutes of exercise in five times a week, and there you go. If you are going down the sensible route, don’t lose more than 1-2 pounds a week, that’s the best level. Losing too much too fast can be bad, especially if you’re morbidly obese, as you can lose the fat faster than your skin can retract, and then you’ll be a healthy weight, but will literally have skin a few sizes to large for you which will not help your self esteem, which would otherwise have been improved by said your weight loss.