Posted on 01/01/2022 8:20:11 AM PST by Mariner
It's resolution time again, and if you’re like most people, eating “better” may be one of your goals for the new year. According to a survey on 2021 resolutions, the most common commitments people made were to exercise more (46 percent), improve their diet (45 percent), or lose weight (44 percent).
In fact, as many as 45 million Americans begin a diet each year. But research shows that weight-loss diets just don't work. They’re unsustainable and you're likely to regain the weight.
What if, instead of plotting how you'll restrict your calories in the new year, you resolved to feel good about the food you eat?
That's the advice of eating psychology expert Elise Museles, author of Food Story: Rewrite the Way You Eat, Think & Live. Museles encourages readers to consider their personal food stories--how they were raised around food, their ideas and rules about diet, and the emotions they feel when they’re eating--both positive and negative. She says discovering your story about food is key to creating a healthy new narrative about what, why, when, and where to eat.
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Nuts and bolts of the math...
3500 calories = one pound
It works both gaining and losing weight...
Eat 3500 more calories than you burn and one pound is gained.
Burn 3500 more calories than you eat and one pound is lost.
For instance...
Eat 500 less calories than you burn each day (basal/base metabolic rate, or “BMR”), for seven days (500x7), lose one pound.
Even better...
Eat 200 less calories each day less than you naturally burn each day (BMR) AND burn 300 calories in exercise for seven days (500x7), lose one pound AND receive the health benefits of being in motion.
BMR calculator here...
https://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html
As a bonus...a motivational poem...
BUTT PRINTS IN THE SAND
http://wowzone.com/butt.htm
“If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them”
John 13:17
May this year be successful for all
I gain weight when I eat bread. Ice cream does not help nor cans of soda. I plan on cutting ice cream out completely, eat less bread a week. I should do the same with soda but.... I am a popaholic. Pop is not good for you but tasty.
I have been lately started drinking soda in the afternoon vs starting off first thing in the morning and thru-out the day!
I did buy a steeper exercise machine which works real nice.
bkmk
Some good ideas here. Thanks for posting.
I think the proper response is:
“Blow it out your ear!”
A good place to start is to do the opposite of the food pyramid!
Since I was a teen, I’ve had maybe one soda per year (maybe two) and rarely ever with sugar. For a long time, I never ate butter or ice cream, either.
Of course, over the years my weight has still crept up a bit due to letting my guard down (about 20 pounds over my college weight). I indulge my sweet habits other ways which, unfortunately, combine carbs AND sugar.
But 2022 is going to be different!
RE: ..having said that, God gave me canine teeth for a reason. Lol
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I think it may have been His idea for us to take advantage of the fact He made cattle out of steaks. Hate to have them go to waste.
But now they go to waist.
For me personally, low carb diets work, and the nice thing is I never feel hungry. I cut out all sugar, most all starch, and that’s it. I eat as much beef, chicken, pork, eggs, and fish as I want and limit my veggies to those that are non-starchy (no rice, corn, potatoes, or lentils). I also don’t think of it as “a diet”, it’s just what I eat every day.
“He made cattle out of steaks”
I like it!
All things in moderation is the way to go.
2-3 steaks a year at most is it for me.
“Intermittent Fasting is the way to go.”
However, a fairly well-designed, highly cited study sheds some doubt on the effectiveness of intermittent fasting: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2771095
Some truth to it as too many people crash diet.
For me personally I had to build into it.
First was changing how, what and when I ate.
Then it was incorporating an exercise and weight program.
Then it was a continual modification of the two.
It took me about a year, but I have lost 50 lbs and have kept it off.
My one vice is bourbon and brisket, but it’s all in moderation.
And no,I don't work for the Atkins Diet Corporation.
So true..that’s my “diet”
What you are saying is basically correct kind of, but you are greatly oversimplifying the actual situation.
Most of the fad diets that are popular these days, especially those that focus on high protein foods, powders and supplements cause people to become dehydrated. It is the same trick as the old diet pills that worked mostly because they acted as diuretics. In the beginning people often lose a lot of weight. After that they start gaining it back. It is not because they lack will power, it is because the diet they chose set them up for failure. Then they typically give up and go back to their normal routine.
Most of the time if someone is losing more than a couple pounds a week it is typically from water not fat. And the problem with just cutting 500 calories a day out of your diet is that it often results in people feeling lethargic when they are hungry and limiting their activity level to the point that their metabolism slows down. And walking a mile burns only about 100 calories.
My wife is a retired nurse, and department head. When I met her she was the Northwest Regional Aerobics Instructor Champion. I didn't know that there was such a thing... I just knew that she was stunningly beautiful. She also had been running a fitness center and giving classes in the community on nutrition and exercise. She was extremely inspirational. People were always coming up to us and thanking her for helping them change their lifestyle and lose weight.
To really lose weight and keep it off takes commitment, a change in dietary choices, and a lifestyle change. Just going on a diet and walking a mile a day might help, but does not really cut it long term. When most of us were young and we had hormones coursing through our veins and the things we did for fun involved a lot of exercise it was not hard to keep the weight off. With all the sedentary activities even for kids that we have available to us these days it is predictable that the population will continue to get fatter and fatter.
Agree
Intermittent fasting is the best way
to lose weight.
I love this book.
THE OBESITY CODE
UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF
WEIGHT LOSS
JASON FUNG, MD
Stopped reading at “expert”.
How about "Don't be too lazy to cook"?
Self discipline is the lacking component.
The link is to the blog of a hobbyist.
Another person selling a BS story. A “special, easy method”.
FYI: The reason people on low carb diets lose weight is because they consume fewer calories. Take away carbs and one’s appetite diminishes.
But you cannot build a FIT body without a balanced diet and strenuous exercise.
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