XPost: alt.food.vegan.science, alt.cooking-chat, rec.food.cooking   
   From: rgrass@consolidated.net   
      
   i know lots of people use it as an excuse but you are simply wrong, there   
   are lots of relevant factors for different gene pools even, and trust me i   
   know lots more about this than i would like to know, i never have given up   
   trying to lose weight and am always reading more but if it were just a   
   mattter of calories in/out noone would be overweight...   
      
   btw gary i loved your descriptions but for some reason the post wouldn't   
   send.   
      
   Lee   
      
   and i forgot, yes i use a screen reader, in this case window-eyes, but there   
   are several on the market now that are much less robotic than the early   
   ones.   
   "Gary"  wrote in message news:4C180A35.3F708889@att.net...   
   > "Joan F (MI)" wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Your body's metabolic processes are far more complicatec than calories   
   >> in,   
   >> calories out.   
   >   
   > Except for a few short term exceptions, no they're not.  In the long term,   
   > that's the bottom line.  Not really even debatable.   
   >   
   > If you are overweight, you eat too much and/or exercise not enough   
   > (aerobically)   
   >   
   > Make all the excuses you want to for being overweight (like big-boned is a   
   > favorite I've heard many times).  BTW, I'm about 30 pounds overweight   
   > myself   
   > now but I know how to fix it....just hard to get motivated.   
   >   
   > If you *REALLY* don't eat as many calories as you burn, your weight will   
   > decline, you will get skinnier and skinnier and you will eventually die if   
   > you take it too far....once the body turns to burning muscle for energy.   
   >   
   > So many people are overweight and always look for the "easy way out."   
   > Hence   
   > the popularity of fad diets and diet pills, etc.  It's big business.   
   >   
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