The calories in, calories out model for weight loss is scientifically flawed. Specific nutritional guidance matters more than just eating less and exercising more. Ask AI Mark and others explain why this common advice misses the actual science of how your body processes food.
An expert when you say, no, eat more leafy greens. An expert in his or her mind knows what that means, but an amateur might go, I don't know what that means.
Grass. Eat grass.
So experts that are prescribing like, hey, you need to change your diet, eat more leafy greens, they're not understanding that perhaps their patients are totally confused. So instead they need to be very, very specific. Here's what I want you to do. Eat bok choy and broccoli and 17 leaves of kale. Yes, every evening and steam it or saute it and cook it this way. So really it's what is exactly the behavior and here's how to do it. And that is a much more successful approach than most.
Geez, well. No wonder we have such a problem, 'cause all doctors say is eat less and exercise more and lose weight. Good luck with that.
I don't know if you wanna go that, I'm gonna go here and you can change it if you want, but just everyday people don't even have the right guidance. I mean, for most people, if I were to walk out on the street and say, oh, how do you lose weight? I would wager 90% plus would say, oh, I just have to exercise more. And that's the, you know, that's what.
People, which is actually a false idea, right? Right.
And so, so people, so they're like, oh, if I only could get myself to exercise more, I could lose weight. Well, they're headed in the wrong direction. They haven't been given the right behavior, which is mostly nutrition behaviors, as you know, and the right way to make those into habits. So there is, and why that idea that exercise is the key to weight loss, why that keeps living on and on, I have no idea.
Oh, I'll tell you why.
Why is that, why is that so persistent?
Well, because the mantra of the government and the food industry is calories in, calories out is the secret to weight loss and it has nothing to do with nutritional quality. And so, it doesn't matter whether you have a soda or broccoli, as long as they're the same calories, it's the same amount of energy. And if you can exert more exercise to expend that energy, as long as you're in calorie balance, you'll stay the same weight. If you're exercising more than the calories you're taking in, you'll lose weight. But scientifically, that's just not true because all calories are not the same. And some calories like sugar and starch actually cause you to spike insulin, which makes you store fat.
