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[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The thing those intensive programs are good at is doing a dietary reset, so that you can somewhat get used to eating healthy amounts of healthy stuff.

Saying that they only thing that helps is adressing the everyday dietary habits sounds really pretentious, really. That's the hard part, it's really hard to change habits gradually for a lot of people, since dietary issues are almost like an addiction for them. Cutting cold turkey for a while and then reintroducing normal food slowly is a very effective way for some people to adresss their daily dietary habits.

I literally could not control myself while eating for a long while, whatever dish, Pringles bag, fries bag I opened, I finished it on a single go. Whenever I was bored, I told myself that I would eat one or two, and suddenly it was empty. It's really frustrating because I really was trying not to, and I tried so many times to gradually lessen the stuff I ate, count calories, whatever. It's all moot. What actually helped me was doing a very intensive process for a week that helped me reset my eating habits, then began eating only healthy stuff, and forced myself to find healthy stuff that I found tasty too.

Basically, those programs do have a function to exist.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You realize "in my experience" means I have done it myself? And let me tell you they are nice and good to drop a few kilos in a structured and supervised environment.

Afterwards you are right back in your normal routine, and there you need to make the actual change happen. Permanently changed eating habits and frequent physical exertion.

If you can’t do that no fat camp in the world helps you long term.

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Well, it's true that they don't help in the long term by themselves, but they are a huge help to headstart a change in routine.

You don't need to tell me, as I said in my comment, I too did an intensive program and in helped me reroute my routine. It might help that since I needed to down 30kg there was no way in hell I'd do that in a week, so I focused on what I already wrote in the last comment.

All I wanted to say in my last comment is that they are good to reset a routine so that you can start getting new habits for the upcoming marathon.