File under "fad diet."
After years of eating well, I'm sure I could go off the deep end for a while and eat nothing but caramel creams for a awhile. But I would have to go back to healthier eating at some point.
HAUB’S CURRENT DIETHuab describes his current diet as varied and says he tries to eat a rainbow of different-colored food.
He shops mostly based on prices rather than organic, non-GMO or brand name.
He sometimes looks at nutritional labels, but not often. And he isn’t all that concerned about processed foods.
He likes white bread for grilled cheese, eats Ritz crackers with cheese on top and indulges in mint-filled Oreos and Nutty Bars – his favorite in the junk food aisle.
He doesn’t make a point to shop in the health section unless something is on sale.
“I try to be on the pro-science,” he said. “But I find myself heading the devil’s advocate side. Obviously what I did was on the devil’s advocate side.”
Haub looks healthy and is by no means overweight. If anything, he’s slender.
When out to lunch recently at a restaurant in Manhattan called Coco Bolos, he ordered two shrimp tacos with black beans and coconut rice.
He ate slowly and left almost a whole taco on his plate along with some of the beans and rice.
He said he usually gets to-go boxes and that he, his wife and their two kids often share three meals, with leftovers to take home.
He said he doesn’t count calories anymore but estimates he eats around 2,600 to 2,800 a day.
He said he’s happier eating a variety of foods rather than eating packaged snacks all day. On the junk food diet, he got tired of eating food at room temperature and missed hot meals.
People need to strike a balance between being satisfied with what they eat and eating food that is good for them. He said he thinks that being happy is a component of being healthy.
“Psychology is why most people go off diets,” he said.
A SIMPLE SECRET
In the end, the secret to Haub’s weight loss on the Twinkie diet was simple: He ate less.
The conclusion is correct. He ate less. In vs. out.
One more thing...it wasn’t done as a recommended diet, but simply to prove it was “in vs. out”. The first rule of thermodynamics. That the macros don’t really matter as much as all the fad diets promote. It was an anti-fad so to speak.