Thread by @GuruAnaerobic

The main reasons for obesity.

1 Hyper-palatable food
2 Too abundant - all the time
3 Don't need to exercise to get it

Obesity will never be resolved in this environment of abundance. Humans are hardwired to expend as little energy as possible to get food.

This is why exercise is hard for many people. Expending energy for no reason is the opposite of how we evolved. A fundamental driver of human activity has been taken out of the equation by human ingenuity

Ease of access to food allows us to eat as much as we like, whenever we like. We have no environmental constraints. We’ve got what we wished for – easy calories for less and less effort (supermarkets, apps, home deliveries,) and little danger in getting it.

We now have to do the reverse of what we are hardwired to do. We have to purposely earn our calories because the environment no longer forces us to do it. We need to manufacture effort in order to simulate the conditions we would have faced in the wild.

This is the idea of the 'Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle', recreating a Lean Environment - the default way of living which means u never have to diet, as being fit and lean is a natural condition; occasional but not chronic abundance. It means the reward comes after exercise not before