The war on the overweight will begin now that smokers are bled dry.
After a lifetime as a Chef as well as a diet nutritionist, I have concluded that most diets can and do assist in taking weight off, however, for the overwhelming number of overweight folks, the benefits are only temporary at best, and for all too many, they are a cruel hoax.Am I saying that diets don't work? Not on your life. What I am saying is that almost every diet, touted by the medical and professional mainstream punditry, leads to tragic results over the long-haul.
This excess weight problem has no gender, age, race, or socioeconomic preference. Overweight, has now become the most alarming and damaging national health emergency to endanger our citizenry, and most especially our children, since the onset of polio.
Over the past 40 years, chronic obesity and general weight problems have manifest themselves into a full-blown national tragedy. Ironically, during that same period we have witnessed a financial bonanza in the weight control, and diet industries. An endless array of books, pills, food supplements, strange recipe concoctions, exercise devices and grotesque medical procedures of all descriptions have been touted as the panacea.
Everyone that has ever tried to loose weight by dieting has to agree, that most will fail, and they will do so sooner rather than later. Predictably, regaining the lost pounds will result in deep disappointment, anger and guilt. This condition is almost always followed by a bout of depression, and you guessed it, obsessive eating, then more weight gain. The cycle begins again.
There is actually a simple solution to this...
everyone over the age of 50 who has never smoked should take it up pronto.
We’ll lose all the extra weight in the first year and not have to worry about lung cancer for 30 to 40 years by which time we’ll already be dead of old age.
The nanny state busybodies will all have coronaries and the government leeches will have a new, larger tax stream so maybe they’ll leave productive endeavors alone. (Okay, a girl can dream can’t she!)
It’s either that or we sue all the Indian casinos for foisting tobacco on us unsuspecting Anglos and use the money to lose weight on our mandatory eight week vacation to the spa of our choice each and every working year.
Exercise is still the best remedy, although I of all people, need to follow this advice more than anyone here.
It is not diets that are to blame.
It is simply that people are weak. They don't understand that changing one's diet, means changing their life permanently, not just until the pounds come off.
As I see my midsection starting to expand a little, I have a choice to make. I can make adjustments to my life to keep the pounds off, or I can become a victim to a lack of will.
Diets work, all of them. So does exercise. People are weak and lazy. I blame them.
1. Eat 3 small meals per day
2. Eat a couple of light snacks if needed
3. NO Sugar
4. No alcohol or smoking
5. Exercise 3-5 times per week
6. Reduce Stress
7. Get plenty of good quality sleep
Of course this will never fly for the quickfix crowd of today and the millons of people who have "thyroid" problems.
*shrug* I’m down to 280...
Having absorbed a ton of conflicting material and scanned dozens of diet plans, the only thing one comes away with is the not so novel idea that the key to weight loss that stays off and gives you greater longevity is restricting your intake to ONLY good whole foods, IN MODERATION. Eating TWICE as much of good food with half the carbs, or fat, or calories equals exactly the same amount contained in the bad food, or the good food DOUBLED, which defeats the whole idea/ There is NO food you want to eat in unlimited quantities.Eating less of the right foods will take off the weight, making a regimen like that part of your daily life will KEEP weight off.Portion control is the key. Eating tiny or smallish portions several times a day is the way to go. DON’T avoid breakfast, for obvious reasons. Having something to eat as soon as you get up will break the cycle so many dieters have experienced over and over: the idiotic “starving” that carries on through what would and should be breakfast and/or lunch, then GORGING on food starting with dinner, and ending up usually with an after=midnight fridge raid of god-only-knows-what.
The most sensible eating plan for life that I have found was via a comment here on Freep. It referred me to the No S plan at Everyday Systems. http://www.nosdiet.com/ It’s simple:
There are just three rules and one exception:
* No Snacks
* No Sweets
* No Seconds
Except (sometimes) on days that start with ‘S’
That’s it.
ping