Old Girl with fresh advice

[kirstenplotkin]

Till I was in my early 40's I never had a weight problem I couldn't solve in the gym. Then because of health issues, I began to put on weight. To me that meant more work in the gym, and it seemed to work, but the doctor felt I should go on this new popular diet. In the early 80's, that was the thing to do. For 20 years I tried every possible diet and my weight went up and down like a yo yo.

Finally I remembered that until I was 40 something, I never strayed from the old traditional diet my mother and grandmother followed. Sure, if I was silly I could put on a couple of pounds but never more than I could work off with a couple of weeks in the gym. It has been seven years since my last diet and my weight has remained normal for all that time.

It has made me realize that what we are told today about what is good for us and what is not, is pure, unscientific, untested fiction. We don't need yet another diet, we need to cure ourselves of carbohydrate addiction and we need to get back to what used to be normal food, the type of food nature intended us to eat, the food our body is designed for.

 

[Jericho]

Welcome back to the forums.

I agree that there is plenty of 'fiction' in the diet industry, that is why you look at the actual science instead of hype.

 

[summer123]

Theres little more to know in regards to weight loss then fewer calories going in then coming out = weight loss. As long as you keep your macro and micro nutrients in balance its a matter of cutting the calories. Keeping yourself healthy is important as if your lacking something, you more often then not end up with cravings for it which makes cutting the calories harder then it needs to be.

Diets exist to take money. They don't tell you anything more then the basic calories in vs out equation but tie ribbons and cover it with veils so you think its something else, something special. Then you stop the diet, you think you have lost enough weight and go back to what you were doing before. But this is why diets fail! A diet is for life, not just the few months before your holiday! If all diets were presented to you as "this is a diet you will be on for the rest of your life", no one would chose to go for them. But the fact is, if you don't maintain the calorie cuts and the balanced eating, you will put the weight back on.

And the shake-diets? how on Earth would anyone live off those for the rest of their lives?! I bet not a single one of those signing up to those things even considers what to eat when they have lost their weight- and I bet that when they do get to their desired weight, its straight back to what they were eating before. Sans shake.

 

[kirstenplotkin]

To say a diet is for life is a sentence nobody deserves or needs to put up with.

I spent 43 years never counting a calorie and I didn't know anyone else who did. Not till I allowed unprofessional people to recommend what I should eat did I get a weight problem.

Human beings are not designed to diet - ever. Diets didn't exist till 40 years ago. From the day we began to diet we began to get fat.

Its time to get real, get off the diet merry-go-round, cure your carbohydrate addiction, because till you do we'll continue to get fatter.

If you have a craving for food - you have an addiction - a carbohydrate addiction. No matter how many calories you count your weight will always return - eventually, till you cure that addiction.