Myth: SOME PEOPLE ARE DIET-RESISTANT AND CANNOT LOSE WEIGHT
Many people truly believe that nothing ever works for them and they're physically incapable of getting leaner. After rare genetic anomalies are ruled out and thyroid disorders are diagnosed and treated, could genetics, metabolism, age, hormones, or anything else really be enough to make you resistant to a low-calorie diet?
Many studies have tested this myth. What has been found out is that people generally underreport the amount of calories they are actually ingesting. On average, in many studies, it has been learned that people can underreport caloric intakes of over 1,000 calories per day! This has been referred to as "selective underreporting". Subjects seemed to get "amnesia" about eating specific foods such as fats and sweets. Even health professionals are not immune. In a 1999 study by the Journal of Nutrition, "Underreporting of Habitual Food Intake in Highly Motivated Lean Women", a group of registered dietitians underestimated their daily caloric intake by an average of 16 percent.
The bottom line: almost all of us are terrible at guessing our caloric intake.
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I wrote this whole comment i think it got lost. ok i was great at journaling my foods when I first joined ww. then they had the core program where you didn't have to journal, and now they learned that if they combined core and points and called it mometum, it would work better. so i have to get back in habit of journaling.
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