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I’ve struggled with weight all my life. I was also valedictorian if my HS, top of class in college. I was also in every club known to man, had a job, played THREE instruments, super religious, waited to have sex until marriage and have never had a drink of alcohol. People have known all of that about me and STILL looked at my weight and thought: lazy, no will power, dumb, unaware, undisciplined. This is a real thing. Fighting an out of whack appetite is insanely hard and a life’s worth of fighting to figure out how to keep it remotely managed. People don’t even realize how illogical their being to judge people the way they do. The stigma is that bad.

Feeling hungry more often than the usual person seems much more likely to be a cause of weight problems than all the claims people give. A diet based around foods with a high satiety value would probably help I imagine. If I was just eating bread, rice, sweet foods, etc it'd be incredibly easy to consume an excessive amount of calories. Unfortunately supermarkets these days are filled with convenient tasty high calorie foods that don't satiate hunger.

Excellent video, especially the revelation at 1:40. I've never experienced what you went through (briefly) to cut for that photo shoot and what you sister experiences all the time. I understand that some people do have appetite signaling misaligned with their caloric needs, and how rough that makes trying to maintain a healthy weight or diet down to a healthy weight. Has there been much progress in figuring out why this is the case? Usually I would say genetics, but you (and at least one other person commenting) have a sibling on the opposite end of the spectrum.

So what happened? I mean I grew up in the 80’s and there were VERY few fat people. It seems like people are just getting bigger and bigger as our cars and everything are too.

My brother is like you. I am more like your sister. I know this feeling of hunger all the time even after you eat what others consider a healthy amount. Not sure why it occurs in some humans, but it sure is a pain to deal with.

So true and beautifully articulated & rendered, Ben! I''m 69 & started Mounjaro weight loss injections 3 months ago & for the first time in my life I experience satiety after a meal. Previously, "satiety" meant having a painfully distended stomach & acute discomfort!! I've always had a healthy diet too, but too many calories still makes you obese. Down 17kg with maybe 10kg to go! :)

I never ate a lot, but I did eat the wrong food and ate after I got off work at midnight. I weighed 350 pounds and tried every diet. If I lost weight I would gain it back plus more. I went keto. It was so easy and lost weight. I then went carnivore and have now lost 125 pounds in less than a year. With carnivore I am never hungry and feel 1000 percent better. The only hard part for me is I don’t really like meet. I also know this is not a diet, but a lifestyle change. I don’t miss the soda or bread that I loved. I do allow myself to cheat on special occasion, but then go back to eating healthy. If you have trouble regulating your weight, carbs are bad for you. I know because I loved carbs. Going keto and then carnivore erased my cravings for carbs and sugar. No other diet has done that, plus carnivore has so many health benefits. I have learned that you can’t diet, but you can make a lifestyle change for the better.

You’re not even funny dude!!😢

Just woke up to this wonderful vide, thanks Ben.

Thank you for being authentic

I've tried explaining this to people, and it just never lands. They either don't get it, or refuse to believe it. Excessive hunger signaling freaking sucks, and becomes worse if you get into the position of becoming insulin resistant, which just becomes a freaking nightmare.

Couldn't agree more with you Ben. I think a great analogy is studying in school - getting straight A's is also technically a choice, but one that requires immense sacrifice for some people depending on their genes and environment.

Wow. I'm a lean person and have been all my life. But my sister and rest of family are obese. You've completely changed the way I look at it in 4mins. Amazing job!

Thanks to your sister for letting you share, and you for making her story heard. It's so easy for people to get discouraged because of "simple" advice and neglect considering all the other factors.

I used to have bed and it felt impossible to loose weight. After I went to a psychiatrist and got rid of it weight loss suddenly became very easy and I have to pay attention to actually eat enough. So I feel like I've seen both sides and totally agree that a lot of thin peoples advice is fucking worthless because they actually playing on easy mode.

work with type 1 diabetics has shown that walking reduces post meal glucose spike, largely because insulin is circulated fast, and walking slow gastric emptying. It has a small effect on total insulin requirements over the course of a day, on the scale of maybe 2-4% per extra mile, or about 1-2% per 1000 steps, so even going from say 5000 to 10,000 steps a day will only reduce insulin needs and exposure by 5-10% if you don't eat more to compensate Also, based on research with type 1 diabetics, if you really want to reduce your post-prandial spike, just get in a swimming pools and move around, or jump on a trampoline. My son has T1D and if he does 3 sets of 5-10 squats with moderate weight, his spike may be 20-30 points less. Again, this may be due to circulating injected insulin or slowing gastric emptying rate.

Thanks Ben! So amazing to see! You are the Best! Thanks for being here!

I think you’re dead right, and good on your sister. Unfortunately the “fitness community” is often short sighted with the subject.

Thank you for this. This explains my entire life of struggling with my weight. When I was young I used to be rail thin and then it was like some switch flipped in me at about 11 and never shut off.

Thanks. ❤

Thanks for a great video. As someone that is 5’10 and has been 80kg, 160kg, and everywhere in between at various stages of my life.. I’ve never, ever not been ravenously hungry. Actually there was a brief 2 month period at one time when I was on Duromine and for the only time I can remember, I wasn’t hungry 20 minutes after eating. Obviously completely unsustainable, but it was interesting (and somewhat upsetting) to know what that felt like. I maintain a decent weight now, and just try to focus my diet on more satiating foods and don’t beat myself up too much when the willpower inevitably cracks. Keep marching on!

No one choose to become obese. It's an appetite dysfunction, not something you can merely decide to do (or not do). Most "cures" for obesity directly suppress the appetite, which will lead to weight loss over time. For me learning I could fast every other day and then eat every 1-3 hours became a way for me to go from 290 to 180 pounds. It was a strategy to deal with Binge Eating Disorder by using the appetite suppressing effect of ketosis, complete abstinence, followed by non-stop eating of small meals. Had I learned about this strategy in the 90's my life would have been different.

I’ve recently come to experience that feeling you described of your body fighting back to regain weight during/following a caloric deficit. It would be so tempting for me to use that ghrelin signal to green light some binge eating, but no…Fool me once. That’s why I’m so grateful for things like fitnesspal that let me get accurate data on how much I’m actually eating. Without that data I’d be at the mercy of my satiety signals telling me to eat, eat, eat. I’m comfortably lean now but frankly I’m lazier than many overweight people that I see doing all sorts of activities. I hover around maintenance calories, and cardio is limited to hillwalking/hiking once a week. I’m on my feet pretty much all day at work though. Thanks for sharing Ben. These are valuable conversations to spark

Youre a solid guy

I totally understand and I mostly agree with you Ben. I also belong to the people that naturally have a huge appetite. I was always naturally chubby, around 30-35% for all my life, till the age of 32. I am a natural bodybuilder and I have been lifting seriously for the past 6 years. I sort of understand what a highly satiating diet is: lots of protein and loads of fiber. However, if I do not count calories, I will naturally climb up to 105 kg and 35% bodyfat. I took me 4 HARD years to get down to 12% bodyfat, which I maintain for the past year. I MUST count calories daily, otherwise I can not stay lean. I still believe staying obese is a choice. It is just much harder for some people like me. It is a daily struggle to stay lean! But it can be done and it feels amazing to look at the mirror and feel healthy and proud! :D

So true. Someone in my life, who is diabetic, started one of the new medications that has finally triggered their weight loss. This is after a lifetime of losing 15 to 20 pounds, plateauing, than gaining the weight back plus (because of other medications). People who shame others for their weight and assume it's simply because of "life" choices clearly don't understand the nuances of the human body. For many, it is not a simple choice of exercise and caloric deficit.

I'm on weight loss and I've been yoyoing whole life (30KG spectrum lol). And I was this person blaming the fat (my self included) for being lazy while I've never been lazy lol. You channel change my perspective on a lot of bullshit I used to believe (Sean's channel too) on this subject.

Thanks Ben

There are many things to appreciate about you, Ben, but the quality that really stands out to me at least, is the depth of your compassion.

Both of you are blessed.

Yeah I don’t think people need to be reminded that there’s a difference between fasting and starving. Once you get past the first week or so while you’re adjusting to the new diet, literally every person I know who has tried intermittent fasting (any kind works, but in my experience the best is alternate day fasting) has talked about benefits that go _beyond_ weight loss. Better mental focus and cognitive function, more energy, better mood, better sleep, better appreciation for food when they _do_ eat, better productivity, even better financial situation. Studies have shown that some types of IF can reduce symptoms in diabetic patients. And other long term studies in mice show longer life span, decreased rates of cancer, and delayed onset of age-related diseases. Plus, it just makes sense that your body would respond positively to intermittent fasting. During the hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution, the vast majority of which was spent as hunter-gatherers, which do you think has been the much more common mode of existence and therefore which do you think our bodies evolved for: eating sparingly most days, perhaps even going without food for an entire day with occasional binges? Or eating three square meals every single day?

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I have IBS and have been trying to for two weeks and i didnt have one 30-40 minute cramp morning since. If i get my period on time this month im keeping it up. Id rather be hungry every other day than get the morning pains.

Legend has it even her dad got pregnant that night.

Butter, in coffee? I just can't... Thank you for this video. This and others are helping my health journey. ❤

That bottle in the draw looks legit

Many people add sugar to oatmeal to make it palatable. That is bad for you. For people who work out oatmeal would not be bad. For the average American who adds sugar to oatmeal it is bad.

I still get on the scale every day myself, but for me the trick was to have my spreadsheet (I do love a spreadsheet) report my data in "Last 7 Day Average." Much more sanity sparing for me.

Agreed, when I started my weight loss journey, I weighed every day. After a year and some change, I do it once a week. I've put 12 pounds back on. Of the 30 I lost. But, I lift more, I'm equal if not more active, and my clothes fit better. So I'm guessing some of the "weigh gain" is muscle. Not just visceral fat. The point is, after a while, you realize it's just a number. Not a value scale of your self-worth.

Bless you, sir! This needs to be said much more, and especially when it comes to how we move and how we eat: pay attention to how things affect us, and act accordingly. Try doing it differently, and see what results. For me, weighing myself mostly daily with a scale that updates my mobile health app gives me permission NOT to try and track how I'm doing, because I have that information in my app. And on the occasional mornings when I miss doing so, it doesn't bother me. This is a little bit crazy, but it works for me.

After 40 years of being obese, I follow a ketogenic diet and cut my weight in half, from 164kg to 82. I agree that the ketogenic diet is not magical; you must eat less to lose fat. But for people like me, with a compulsory way of eating, the restrictions that the diet imposes on you help a lot. Maybe a psychologist can do the same, I don't know, after 5 years I still control my weight with this diet.

I used to weigh 350 pounds and I tried a lot of diets. I finally found Keto and I lost 50 pounds. Keto is not really a diet. It is more a life style change in the way you eat. I then changed to the carnivore life style and I am down 80 more pounds in less than a year. Will keto or the carnivore life style work for everyone? No! Keto or carnivore is not really a diet. Getting rid of sugar was the hardest thing to do, but it was the best thing that happened to me. Eating just meat is very boring and hard for me because I don’t really like meat. But, again the benefits far outweigh the boring food. I lived in pain for 30 plus years and now it’s gone. Even though I don’t enjoy eating I know this is a lifestyle change and I know I can stick with it because it’s not hard to do. Dr. Anthony Chaffee and Dr. Ken Berry are very knowledgeable about Keto and/or Carnivore. Videos from strength trainers don’t understand the concept of keto and carnivore lifestyle because they like carbs. I respect this guy, but I disagree with his views on carbs. Getting rid of carbs was the best thing I did for myself. I do cheat on special occasions like birthdays in my family snd holidays to enjoy the foods and drinks I used to love, but most of the time I stay on meet and water. If you have tired every diet and failed then I would recommend the keto lifestyle and carnivore lifestyle. Good luck.

Same for intermittent fasting?

You can spout all the studies you want. I personally don’t like to do any activity after eating. I workout every morning fasted and couldn’t care less about these studies. Just exercise and stay fit. Period.

It cuts your appetite. That’s the magic for me.

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People seem to forget that ketogenic diets cause mitochondrial uncoupling and brown fat adaptation and upregulation of metabolism in fat cells. ( wasted heat ) . Also you get extra calorie wasting by breathing out and pissing ketones. Besides...controlling insulin is key to unlocking fat stores. Its nit just about calories in, calories out . Cico is a simplistic model and completely ignores hormones as a driver of metabolic function. Nothing does that better than a keto diet with time restricted eating. I will lump carnivore diets in there too. A keto diet wins every time in randonized controlled studies. They simply do.

A while ago I read Phil Maffetone‘s book "The MAF method" (popular among runners) because I was interested in his training approach, but the book was full of weird claims about high-fat diets (along the lines of "just eat clean and reduce carbs and you will loose fat automatically, be so much healthier, etc"). His method is based around mostly aerobic training and he made it sound like you just burn off all your body fat with this, no matter your calorie intake. And people believe this bullshit.

So, what was the secret? ????? Inquiring minds want to know! Fess up. No secret? You wasted all that time I could have been doing something constructive.

So many cult members in the comments. “He saved me” yep, I’m sure he did