Re: weight loss programs

In article <KrydnZqF_JxUl93VnZ2dnUVZ_orinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Stephanie says...


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In article <Xns9AAE5E1B2CB72enigmaempirenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, enigma says...

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My name is Jessica Seymour and I put this website
together so that I could share my dieting experiences -
my "big name" diet plan ups & downs, including the good &
the bad - with anyone that might be interested in
benefiting from my learnings.

"diets" don't work. portion control & exercise work.

Not just portion control, but what food you choose to eat.
But the word "diet" did not originate to mean weird thing
you do to lose weight as with the sentence "Her diet is
comprised mostly of fruits and vegetables."

right. avoid anything preprocessed or highly sweetened
(especially if it's not sugar) or highly salted.
the idea of "dieting", as being eating or not eating certain
foods has been around for long enough that it's changed the
original meaning of the word.
lee

But portion control is still the primary thing.

Banty



It depends what you are eating. You just plain cannot eat enough kale,
spinach, green beans... to be problematic.



Sure - but you know what? Most people are dressing up their veggies, taking in
more calories with them.

The other thing is - sure, you can eat all the carrots you want, but there's
only so much carrots, or kale, etc. etc. that people are actually going to eat
sustainably. Really, how many people are going to, day after day, eat mounds
and mounds of plain kale to stave off what they percieve as hunger?

So people go and look for some other panacea recipe where they can lose weight
without really dealing with the underlying problems of
overeating/underexercising. They like to 'get permission' to keep on their
basic eating problems and think they can get around the calorie concerns by
eating mega amounts of carrot juice/kale/grapefruit/protein. Then fall off that
habit as they tire of it. Or find it deosn't work if they don't address
portions and activity (e.g. what happened to the Atkins diet as many followed
accounts of how it supposedly meant eating however many breakfast sausages one
wanted).

Maybe there can be a sidebar about how any amount of *undressed* veges of
certain veges is OK. But the MAIN thing still comes down to - portion control.
Getting used to not eating past satiety, getting used to what satiation even
*feels like* after having eaten to overfull for years, getting used to not
eating whenever food is around, getting used to how not every little perception
of hunger demands satiation, getting used to how certain activities do not have
to be accompanied by food - like movies and Cub Scout committee meetings.

Banty

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