If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
"Best Diet"
Why not simply follow this diet method I saw laid out by a nice slim
lady during a television interview, responding to how she had lost her excess weight after childbirth: 1) Wait until her stomach growled before eating. 2) Stop eating when full. She ate as she liked, with those restrictions only. She only mentioned this briefly during the course of conversation, but it seems to be an eminently logical and effective method. Naturally exercise and sensible diet would also be helpful, - I've already got those, but this has altered the quantity of food consumed tremendously with very little difficulty - perhaps someone else will find this useful also. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
"Daniel M. Dreifus" wrote in message om... Why not simply follow this diet method I saw laid out by a nice slim lady during a television interview, responding to how she had lost her excess weight after childbirth: 1) Wait until her stomach growled before eating. 2) Stop eating when full. She ate as she liked, with those restrictions only. She only mentioned this briefly during the course of conversation, but it seems to be an eminently logical and effective method. Naturally exercise and sensible diet would also be helpful, - I've already got those, but this has altered the quantity of food consumed tremendously with very little difficulty - perhaps someone else will find this useful also. Two problems. Nothing here shows she got proper nutrition. Nobody can be healthy without exercise and nothing here says she exercised. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
"Daniel M. Dreifus" wrote in message om... Why not simply follow this diet method I saw laid out by a nice slim lady during a television interview, responding to how she had lost her excess weight after childbirth: 1) Wait until her stomach growled before eating. 2) Stop eating when full. She ate as she liked, with those restrictions only. She only mentioned this briefly during the course of conversation, but it seems to be an eminently logical and effective method. Naturally exercise and sensible diet would also be helpful, - I've already got those, but this has altered the quantity of food consumed tremendously with very little difficulty - perhaps someone else will find this useful also. Two problems. Nothing here shows she got proper nutrition. Nobody can be healthy without exercise and nothing here says she exercised. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Patricia Heil wrote:
Two problems. Nothing here shows she got proper nutrition. Nobody can be healthy without exercise and nothing here says she exercised. Being healthy and losing weight are two completely different things. You can be slim and very unhealthy, and you can be obese and (relatively) healthy. There are plenty of obese people with a "healthy" diet (mediterrannean diet, vegan...), they are just obese with very good numbers (cholesterol...) and low disease risk. Since these goals are different, they should be dealt with as separate, even if some people can achieve both at once. * Losing weight = finding a way to moderate the amount of food, whatever the food is, in order to be in caloric deficit. If you manage to do that while eating chocolate only, you will lose weight. * Being healthy = finding a decent dietary balance. Depending on your religion, that might mean cutting out the fat or the carbs or just eating some of each in moderation and/or cutting junk food. A healthy diet can be isocaloric, and will not lead to weight loss. It can even lead to weight gain if it provides too many calories. For some people, going too hard on the "healthy" side will cause them to lose control and will ruin the "weight loss" side. It also depends on the goal you set for yourself. Some people are happy with staying overweight, but still want to become healthier. Others just want to be slim to fit the fashion and don't care about their health. And some people just want to do one thing at a time. The method the OP describes works fine for "losing weight", provided you find a way to put it to practical use (i.e., dealing with binges, craving, getting proper hunger and fullness feelings...). You don't need to eat the right food, to exercise or anything to achieve that goal - you just need to eat the right amount. Sure, it won't make you as healthy as possible. Though, if you were obese and living on junk food, being less obese and eating less junk food (since overall amount will be reduced to create the caloric deficit) will make you somewhat healthier. Then, you can plug whatever healthy diet you like into the method to achieve the other goal (being healthy), the generic appetite control method remains valid. The problem with many diets is that they try to sell both items in a single package. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
We should all eat like a Mediterranean | Roman Bystrianyk | Low Carbohydrate Diets | 78 | January 5th, 2005 07:33 PM |
We should all eat like a Mediterranean | Roman Bystrianyk | Low Fat Diets | 57 | January 5th, 2005 07:33 PM |
Article: The TRUTH About Low Carb Diets by Keith Klein | Steve | Low Carbohydrate Diets | 26 | June 7th, 2004 09:05 PM |
Uncovering the Atkins diet secret | Diarmid Logan | General Discussion | 135 | February 14th, 2004 04:56 PM |
erm, is this article TRUE to any extent? | Steven C. \(Doktersteve\) | Low Carbohydrate Diets | 11 | November 29th, 2003 07:43 PM |