by OneMoreBite | Sep 30, 2004 | Weight Loss News
This is sure to cause an uproar amongst the hundreds of manufacturers currently bringing new low carb foods to market. Recent studies showed that at the six month’s point the low carb diet was more effective but during a 12-month study those early gains were lost and all was even once again. No matter which approach, all dieters ended up with about the same amount of weight lost overall.
It’s interesting to note that “low fat” is considered okay in Canada as are “low calorie” and “low sodium.” Why they decided to pick on low carb, I don’t know but I’ll bet it’s got Atkins Corporation a bit riled. Stay tuned. The gloves are off.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 20, 2004 | Dumb Things
I received an e-mail with a link to something called Mental Toughness, so I checked it out and I cannot believe it. If you don’t already disparage yourself enough, this is the program to get. It apparently is based on the premise that if they tell you how bad you are, you’ll start to feel bad enough to decide to make a change.
For instance, here’s a headline: “It’s not the diet that’s failing…It’s YOU!” Nice but wrong.
Temporary Diets Do Not Work And Never Could Because They are Temporary
Nothing but what you do regularly is going to have a lasting impact, so to tell someone that it’s not the diet but them is flat out stupid. Who in their right mind needs someone to tell them they are a failure? Apparently these folks get people to pay them money for this, under the guise of “mental toughness.” That’s not mental toughness. Mental toughness is learning to stop speaking in a cruel and disparaging manner to yourself. It is taking responsibility for your actions, yes, but not belittling yourself over a lapse in your eating plan. We are human beings here folks, not robots. Geeze.
So, a quick glance through the rest of his sales letter tells me that I’m fat, I’m lazy, I didn’t stick to the last diet or I’d be thin, I’m delusional about how I really look, fat is ugly (so I guess that makes me ugly?), and that I should grow up. Does anyone like being treated like this?
It gets better. Clicking on the “Sign me Up. I don’t want to be fat” button, I see this course is $497! Holy rip-off Batman!
Maybe I’m wrong and people like being treated this way, but frankly, I think it’s horrible. The real problem with diet plans like this is that they perpetuate the illusion that unless you are perfect, you will not succeed. Oh, really? I’d love to meet these folks on the street. Chances are they are not perfect specimens themselves. No one is. Bet they’re real fun to live with too! LOL.
You’ll make the best progress in your weight loss efforts by allowing yourself a lapse when it occurs. It’s no big deal. Just get right back in gear the next time you eat. One lapse does not a whole-day-lost make, unless you let it. It’s when you feel you’ve failed that the, “I might as well just eat everything now since I already blew it,” syndrome begins.
Without feeling like you must be perfect you give yourself permission to be human. Pull yourself up and stand tall. I believe you deserve better than what “mental toughness” is offering.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 19, 2004 | Health Concerns
Obese Man Loses More Than 370 Pounds
It’s becoming more common for the severely obese to have to lose weight to become candidates for weight loss surgery.
This presents a dilemma in that to quality for the surgery you must demonstrate that you have tried and failed to lose weight via conventional means, yet if you are too heavy, you are required to LOSE WEIGHT before having the surgery.
Patrick Deuel who started at 1,072 pounds is currently on target for weight loss surgery having recently lost more than 370 pounds. How’d he do it? He’s an in-patient in a Sioux Falls hospital, eating only what he’s given, and at 1,200 calories basically being given a starvation diet. In Deuel’s case I’d say this is probably about all he can do to save his life, and therefore is justified.
Sometimes a liquid diet, or a diet that supplements liquid nutritional drinks (such as Carbs Away Shake) with some whole foods is a great way to get started, especially if you have more than 100 pounds to lose.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 17, 2004 | EFT Weight Loss
Competing with Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers Introduces the Core Diet Plan
It’s a non-dieting approach. Learning to stop eating when you are satisfied is key, and a list of foods to eat is given. Great. What else? Nothing, outside the usual meetings where everyone parades up to be weighed.
I have been promoting the non-dieting approach for a long time and I’ve come to the conclusion that more people would be helped by what I have to teach by my giving them guidelines such as what’s best to eat, in what quantities. Weight Watchers has done this successfully for years, and many many people have lost weight with their plan. Many others simply rejoin Weight Watchers for another go-round after the weight comes back, but that’s another story.
The Core Diet consists of foods you can eat. Nice. I love when they tell me what I can’t have (that’s why I don’t like those good food/bad food plans). Next they say, certain foods are not allowed because they are “trigger” foods such as white rice, some breakfast cereals and nonfat yogurt packaged with fruit. Excuse me? How do they know my trigger foods? None of those are trigger foods for me. And nonfat yogurt with fruit? I eat that almost every single day plus grapenuts for texture. It’s an excellent food. Do they not know you can buy yogurt with live beneficial bacteria and no added sugars? I suppose not.
Okay, so they are making an effort. My only problem with this is that Weight Watchers is not equipped to teach people how to deal with the emotional aspects of weight loss and that is what they must do to be successful with a non-dieting approach.
Frankly, if you know how to stop eating when you are satisfied (not full but satisfied – there is a big difference), you won’t have a weight problem, and probably would never join Weight Watchers.
If you could join Weight Watchers Core Diet together with a plan to learn how to stop emotional eating (such as the One More Bite Approach) and learn how to know when you are satisfied, as opposed to when you are full, then you would have a winning plan.
by OneMoreBite | Sep 15, 2004 | Book Reviews
They are selling the same, tired chocolate powdered drink diet. Yuck. What a let down.
Then, while searching to see what else was new in the dieting world, I came across the Pasta Chocolate Diet. Checking into that I see they recommend popcorn as a snack, three times a day. Shouldn’t it be called the Popcorn Diet?
Getting back to chocolate, I live similar to the principals in, Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet: A Memoir With Recipes, by Lora Brody. In it she explains how she loves chocolate and has a little every day. So do I! Well, not every day, but most days. As I still have one chocolate left from my Christmas box, I wouldn’t say I’m obsessive about it, but I do love good chocolate, and I maintain my weight so they can go hand-in-hand.
My Chocolate Diet
Hershey’s Kisses have about 25 calories apiece, so if you want, take four Kisses and attempt to let one melt in your mouth – no biting. See if you can, it’s not easy. Make four Kisses a snack, make an effort to let them melt and it’ll take you 15 minutes to eat them; meanwhile your hunger pangs are long gone and your craving for something chocolate is satisfied.
