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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Fully agree that the secret to a better YOU is in creating a negative calorie LIFESTYLE! So many of us start the New Year with resolution but lose focus when LIFE intervenes!
My personal choice was/is increased exercise (easier in Florida than Maine). Daily cycling makes my mood better, my health stats better and my mind sharper. Again a CHOICE and a lifestyle!
We are all individuals and no single solution works for all! The best approach is to use this New Years to try SOMETHING but don’t be too excessive all at once! Walk a mile or ride 5 miles is OK. Do 10/50 and you will ache and give up! Cut calories by 500 but don’t go on a 550/day calories which is equally stupid! The best muscle to exercise here is the one on your shoulders!
Yes.
I think it is best to have a long term goal which should be ambitious and several short term goals that are not as ambitious. Sort of like paying off a large amount of personal debt, crack one nut at a time.
I’m more of a fan of having personal fitness goals rather than weight loss goals. When I started riding bicycles in 2018 I could hardly make it 5 miles on a bike, I ride 150 miles+ per week.
Add 150 minutes of vigorous exercise if you can.
However, a fairly well-designed, highly cited study sheds some doubt on the effectiveness of intermittent fasting:
Who paid for this study?
Add 150 minutes per week of vigorous exercise if you can.
weighted around 160 in college....today around 180.
2022 goal is to be around 165-170.
Diets work great, if you have a normal metabolism.
Some of us outliers have to figure it out on our own.
“Add 150 minutes of vigorous exercise if you can.”
That was my principal choice.
I started with one, simple and easy step.
30 mins on my bike, 5 times a week.
Then it led to multiple lifestyle choices that were of great benefit
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“...eating psychology expert Elise Museles”
How much does she weigh, I wonder?
Yeah there’s an incredible “signal to noise ratio”, a whole lot of nonsense associated with dieting and fat loss. Part of it no doubt has to do with the fact that it is now an industry, a way to make money.
The real problem is losing the excess fat is simple. But it is not easy.
Everything ultimately revolves around denial or obfuscation in some fashion or way of these two facts, and efforts to muddy the waters, to try and make the water look deep. There’s a lot of money to be made selling people food, and a lot of money to be made when they want to lose weight, gym memberships, “special” diet subscription services.
Just thinking about maybe losing weight is “good enough”, or maybe signing up for a newsletter. Go for a walk, switch to Diet Pepsi. Then blame “my metabolism” when nothing changes, “Diets don’t work!!”, the “Experts” say so.
Beware any “science” from neurotic whack jobs.
Wrong Kemosabe. For some of us it doesn’t work that way. If I cut 300 calories per day and walked two miles I wouldn’t lose squat, trust me I’ve tried that. People with my metabolism can literally gain 2-3 pounds in one day. following your advice, I might lose a half a pound a week and gain it all back plus by going out to a restaurant for someone’s birthday. I’ve done it. I have a friend who is a doctor and has never been fat in his life who tried to sell me on that 3500 calories/lbs. line. Said you can’t gain 1-2 lbs. in one day. Yes you can.
For the last five years I have had to keep strict records of my daily weight because of a heart condition, and I can show you numerous days where I have gained 1-3 pounds eating nothing more than most healthy people eat everyday of the week. Yesterday was one of those days. Went to lunch to celebrate New Years. Ate a roast beef sandwich, a salad and watched my wife eat dessert. It was a late lunch so I didn’t eat supper, drank no alcohol and gained 1.5 lbs.
I always find the perpetually thin, holier than thou, arrogant you’re just a lazy, fatty types to be insufferable. Happy for you that you’re so physically perfect. Some of us suffer and fight our whole lives to try and obtain what you enjoy naturally, and usually fail. But it’s not for lack of effort as you suspect.
This is not the same as "vegan" even though you avoid meat. WFPB also eliminates refined sugars and processed foods of all kinds. You can be vegan while subsisting on a diet of Oreos, potato chips, and beer. WFPB strives for single ingredient foods.
During my experiment, weight dropped off and I felt better than I had in 20 years. My problem was that I couldn't sustain it, because my job has me on the road, and social gatherings are hard.
I'm going to try that again, but with a focus on "most of the time" rather than attempting strict adherence.
IF is a great way to burn fat off, and has a lot of other benefits to the human matabolism in terms of blood pressure, blood lipid parameters, fatty liver, inflammation, and immune system. Pre-diabetes and metabolic syndrome markers.
It isn’t really a “diet”, but the experts saying diets don’t work are silly and should be ignored. Of course diets work. Indeed, they are the only thing that works.
Exercise is kind of a false hope, just a spoonful of peanut butter takes an hour or two of walking to burn off. The fact is a lot of people eat WAY, way more food than is required for their activity level or exertion. No amount of paychological expert mumbo jumbo or feeling good about the narrative is going to change that fact.
I like intermittent fasting because there is no necessity to change ones diet necessarily, if you want to eat Pizza or roast beef sandwiches go right ahead. One will naturally gravitate to lower carb and higher quality foods fairly quickly.
I will skip lunch then.
“If it didn’t work for you it’s because of insufficient will to follow through.”
Horseshit! Spent 50 years of my life dieting based on calories. I could lose weight...but not always fat. Got down to 125 lbs (5’8”) and still had a thick layer of belly fat. Could lose weight but at the cost of feeling weak and having severe headaches. And when my diet ended, I’d gain weight back.
4 years ago I went Keto and started time restricted eating. If your early eating patterns get your insulin out of whack, you need to go from insulin resistant to insulin sensitive again or you will NOT lose belly fat.
I’m now nearly on a carnivore diet. I had no trouble losing weight and keeping it off. I have more energy and at 155 lbs can see my belt buckle - and I can live like this for the rest of my life. No headaches. No feeling weak as a kitten.
Gary Taubes has it right: If your hormones aren’t out of whack, calories in/out works. But if your hormones are out of whack, you need to address the hormonal imbalance or a diet won’t work. Sorry but I’ve spent 50 years trying low-fat diets with repeated failure. I’ve now finally, in my 60s, found something that WORKS! And no, I do not in any way count calories. I don’t give a rat’s rear about calories. I eat lots of protein, lots of fat, and restrict my carb intake. And now my BODY is regulating my weight correctly.
I don’t have to pay attention to calories because my body’s weight regulation system in back on track. My BODY takes care of my weight. All I have to do is eat most of my meals between noon and 6 pm and emphasize protein and fat. Bread will kill me. Rarely eat veggies and never fruits. Flee from sugar. But I can eat all the fat and protein I want - and my body takes care of the rest!
I hired a trainer at the gym last October and he is GREAT. He basically eats meat and not much else. That high protein / low carb diet really works for him — lean and strong.
I’d worry that is not a healthy diet, though. A good friend who was fit as a fiddle (lots of ice hockey, long hard bike rides, hiking in the mountains) suddenly couldn’t do a hike last summer. He had several stents put in the next day. His doctor said “plant based diet for you from now on” and he gave up all meat and his beloved crab and salmon. He loves going fishing and crabbing around Victoria, BC, Canada. I’m impressed he made the change, but that is brutal.
Keto is high fat, medium protein, too much protein is not good for you. The guideline I try to adhere to is your meat portion should be no larger than a deck of cards. I try to get my fats more from SMASH fish and nuts.
Just give up soda pop and chips.
When your weight is varying 1-3 pounds in a day... that is from water not fat, or a big load of poo that you have either expelled of are carrying around inside your intestines. Your evidence based on daily scale readings that you can gain far more weight from the same diet that skinny people eat is basically nonsense. You likely do have a slow metabolism from heredity and a sedentary lifestyle but there is no reason that with determination and better choices that you could not turn this around.
For those who are putting their lives at risk by remaining morbidly obese for years on end... there is always the option of bariatric surgery. I have not known one person who did not lose a massive amount of weight after they had a “lap band” installed. This includes those who claimed for years that they ate no more than skinny people. There is no doubt from the description of your situation that you are eligible for this procedure. With a lot of extra weight and a heart condition it could literally save your life, especially with the added risks that Covid has created in the last couple of years.
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