And I should be on a diet. Shouldn't I? Shouldn't everyone? That's what I'm hearing and seeing everywhere. Online adds for green tea and acai berries and super weight loss foods, whatever they are. On television, Slim Fast and Weight Watchers and NutriSystem and Jenny Craig. And these celebrity endorsers, please. Enough. Now I understand Rachel Ray has diet secrets. Halle-freakin-luyah. Because Oprah sure let me down.
Lite yogurt and baked potato chips and fat-free everything and the Special K diet and Dr. Atkins and South Beach and The Zone and The 3-hour Diet and The Cookie Diet and Raw Diet and Eat to Live and fasting for God's sake and the glycemic index and the Sonoma Diet and 100 calorie packs and Medifast and diet.com and nutritiondata.com and ediet.com and dietdirect.com and calories on menus and the Subway diet and Dunkin Donuts of all companies with an "under 300 calorie egg white flatbread sandwich" and low fat and low carb and low calorie and meal replacement and metabolism enhancement and the Detox Diet and Flat Belly Diet and remember the grapefruit diet and the cabbage soup diet and the principle of halves diet and eat blueberries and almonds and spicy food to lose weight and lowfat cheese. Why the $@!% would anyone want lowfat cheese? What's the point? I might as well start the cardboard diet.
Is it any wonder that we can't eat healthily and with pleasure and do this consistently?
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Diet is not something you go on to loose weight, it is your lifetime consumption of food. With the exception of nutritionists and dieticians, most average people have no clue about what they are eating and the long term effect it has on the body. Every human disease has a connection with the food we eat and as a whole, the human race is eating crap. In addition to learning about food and digestion, people who struggle with weight loss might take the time to learn about the endocrine system - specifically the thryoid. This one little gland controls your metabolism and if you are eating the wrong foods - as most of us are - you either put on the pounds or drop them too quickly. How many people get their thyroid levels tested when they have their yearly physical? Very few. How many people have ever had tests done to detect vitamin and mineral deficiencies? Hardly anyone. Becoming aware of food and your diet is commendable, but going the extra step to see how that food is absorbed and excreted is where it all starts when it comes to mainting your ideal weight.
ReplyDeleteExcellent advice Simone, thank you. And this is part of our mindless consumption. I think a calories-in/calories-out mentality is over-simplifying at best.
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