Help I cant stop eating.

oopsadaisydoddle

Person_one wrote: »

I think there's a bit of selection bias going on though.

People who join WW are people who struggle and have got too heavy in the first place, so they're always going to be more likely to do the same again at some point in their lives than people who never have a weight problem!

WW is just an eating plan, not a therapy and not a cure for deep seated issues around food. Lots of people find it hugely helpful, but as with everything else in life its not the right choice for everybody.

I am not sure what you mean by 'selection bias' and I do agree that a two pronged approach may be right. However my post was about my experience and the 'enlightenment' i have gained throughout my other thread and through reading the books I mentioned.

I binged and have had counselling for self esteem issues but that only worked short term. I can honestly say, hand on heart, that since I have started adopting a low carb approach, my binges have all but disappeared.

The ONLY time I have overeaten is when I let carbs back in and then I 'needed' more.

daska

oopsadaisydoddle wrote: »

I am not sure what you mean by 'selection bias' and I do agree that a two pronged approach may be right. However my post was about my experience and the 'enlightenment' i have gained throughout my other thread and through reading the books I mentioned.

I binged and have had counselling for self esteem issues but that only worked short term. I can honestly say, hand on heart, that since I have started adopting a low carb approach, my binges have all but disappeared.

The ONLY time I have overeaten is when I let carbs back in and then I 'needed' more.

Person-one is referring to a raft of different factors that can influence the accuracy of a formal study. i.e. if you wanted to run a study on the effects of different eating plans you should ideally recruit a mix of underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese excluding specific diseases/treatments (e.g. insulin for diabetes) that might affect the outcome etc. and you'd include a control group, you'd hospitalise them for long enough for the results to be meaningful and measure every morsel they ate, drank and excreted etc.

But, on the other hand, those studies are incredibly expensive to run so they're seldom undertaken and usually short and with very few subjects. Whereas WW might be exactly what you want if you're running a study measuring the success of long term weightloss using low calorie low fat diets in the community using a weekly support group. (Not only that but it would be potentially unethical to include subjects who are already underweight and ask them to follow the WW plan, lose as much weight as possible and keep it off.)

At heart though we agree in that it's not 'one size fits all' and there are emotional factors that can influence our eating habits. But... sugar has been shown to be an effective painkiller (both physical and emotional) due to the effects it has on the brain so is it really emotional, or is it still physical...?

oopsadaisydoddle

daska wrote: »

Person-one is referring to a raft of different factors that can influence the accuracy of a formal study. i.e. if you wanted to run a study on the effects of different eating plans you should ideally recruit a mix of underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese excluding specific diseases/treatments (e.g. insulin for diabetes) that might affect the outcome etc. and you'd include a control group, you'd hospitalise them for long enough for the results to be meaningful and measure every morsel they ate, drank and excreted etc.

But, on the other hand, those studies are incredibly expensive to run so they're seldom undertaken and usually short and with very few subjects. Whereas WW might be exactly what you want if you're running a study measuring the success of long term weightloss using low calorie low fat diets in the community using a weekly support group. (Not only that but it would be potentially unethical to include subjects who are already underweight and ask them to follow the WW plan, lose as much weight as possible and keep it off.)

At heart though we agree in that it's not 'one size fits all' and there are emotional factors that can influence our eating habits. But... sugar has been shown to be an effective painkiller (both physical and emotional) due to the effects it has on the brain so is it really emotional, or is it still physical...?

Ahhh I get it! I thought it meant I was being biased!!! (Which i am of course but only in a helpful way lol!)