@MiaN We are indeed all different…. I’ve always had what we used to call a sweet tooth - which I now understand to be an addiction to sugar. Most people enjoy sweet things, some can take them or leave them and really not mind, others love them but can keep their intake at a sensible level with a bit of effort, but there are some who don’t particularly enjoy them and wouldn’t miss them. Ditto just about every other food stuff you can think of. The irony is, it’s the people who don’t crave particular foods who are most free to eat them, because they can stop when they need to.
I once thought I couldn’t, or wouldn’t want to, live without sweets, crisps, roasted nuts. And yet here I am having abstained from them just about entirely for about 15 months now. I don’t regret that - my life is the better for it. But that’s me - others will have their own priorities. What annoys me is when people say something which implies I’ve done an unhealthy thing - that my abstaining from them is in itself a form of disordered eating. It isn’t - it’s a rational response to my inability to moderate them. Now when I was eating them and bingeing my brains out -THAT was disordered eating.
And the other thing is, none of us really knows how strong another person’s cravings are. I think it’s very easy to judge someone for not doing something you have done yourself - if you found it effortless, you think they should too…. and if you found it difficult but did it anyway, you assume they could too if they only put in the effort you did. But how can we quantify how much effort any person would need to put in to defeat their craving? There’s no way of knowing. It’s a fool’s errand to try, I think. Just let people get on with their thing, and do your thing, I reckon.
At the same time, if we end up in a situation where a significant proportion are on GLP-1’s permanently, I think we will have gone wrong somewhere. We need to fix the food supply, so future generations don’t acquire the eating habits which have put so many of us in the position we find ourselves in now. The food environment and eating culture have changed radically over the past 50 years. It should be possible for them to change for the better. Just as in the 1950’s over 50% of adults smoked, whereas now it’s only about 12%, and about the same number who vape. So overall, the proportion of people hooked on nicotine is about half what it once was.
@Blushingviolets geek away! Can you clarify why I would need someone with me to attempt a higher weight? If you mean for safety, the machine I use is one where you push away but nothing is going to collapse onto you if you can’t complete the movement.
I have half a memory that I have in the past done the next notch up, which is 109kg. Though I would only have done a few reps at that. But I was 119kg when I started going to the gym, so it’s entirely feasible I could have leg pressed 10kg less than my own weight, since I could do squats. Or am I misunderstanding? There is also a slidey thing so you can add an intermediate weight.