Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
"Eat less, move more."
This is the dietary equivalent of telling someone who is drowning to swim more.
Technically not wrong. Wildly unhelpful. Demonstrating no understanding of why they're in the water.
Here is what "eat less, move more" actually does to a body running on glucose, insulin resistance, and a broken satiety signal:
You eat less. Your body reads this as famine. It has no reason to believe otherwise: it cannot distinguish between intentional calorie restriction and genuine food scarcity. It does not receive your motivational Pinterest board as context.
Your metabolism slows. It becomes more conservative with energy. Your body starts quietly dismantling muscle tissue for fuel, because muscle is expensive to run and if resources are tight, it is the first thing to go. You lose weight. Some of it is fat. A meaningful portion is muscle.
Meanwhile, your hunger increases. Not decreases. Increases. Because your body is now running low, has sensed the deficit, and is responding with the only tool it has: making you want to eat. A lot. Of everything. Specifically the high-calorie things, because that's what survival requires.
So you white-knuckle it for six weeks on willpower, which is a finite resource, lose some weight and some muscle, feel worse, feel hungrier, eventually cave, eat the thing, regain the weight, and conclude that the problem was insufficient personal discipline.
It wasn't.
The strategy was wrong. Eating less on a broken metabolism is not a plan. It's a siege you can't win.
Fix the metabolism. Then the eating less happens on its own.
