panamint_patty wrote:shadylady wrote:Losing weight is actually pretty simple and there's only two things you need to do:
1) eat a healthy diet
2) exercise moderately
What you eat and how much you eat are about 80% to 90% of the equation and exercise is the rest. This works for 99.9% of the population. There are a few rare people with conditions which interfere with losing weight, but there aren't many of those people around. There may be lots of over-weight people, but virtually all of them can lose weight just fine if they get serious and take care of business.
Absolutely, but it takes effort to learn what foods to avoid and what foods to eat and then to develop a strategy to gradually improve your diet (and hopefully fitness routine). It's not rocket science, but it does take more than the ability to resist temptation.
Some people say it takes will power and self-control while other people say that will power and self-control have nothing to do with it. I say it depends on how broadly you define those two terms. If by will power and self-control you simply mean the ability to resist temptation when directly confronted by a delicious and available food item, then they are not the key. HOWEVER, if those terms mean the ability to do research, make a plan, stick to the plan, and modify the plan as needed, then they are what is needed. It's all in how the words are defined and that's the problem with a lot of discussions about weight loss: Often it's just a matter of how the terms are defined and the disagreements are only apparent and not actual disagreements.