I have been living at my dad's house for the past few months, where essentially every single bit of food in the refridgerator or pantry is either low-fat, low-carb, or contains some sort of sugar substitute because his fiancee needs some cheap weight-loss fix. All of this food tastes freaking terrible in contrast to the "real" food I've eaten for the past 16 years of my life. Just try a glass of whole (or 2%) milk, then try fat-free milk, and tell me which one you prefer tastewise.
The entire concept of lite food is frustrating to me. It doesn't make you lose weight, at least not in my house. You can't expect that extreme diet will make up for lack of exercize. And diet food (with the exception of Diet Coke) is not a substitute to whole foods. Humanity has progressed many countless years before the existance of diet foods and until recently, there's never been an obesity problem. Clearly it's not food that's making us fat; rather, it's that people are spending less time moving and more time sitting around doing nothing.
If you want to lose weight or live a healthier life, you won't accomplish that by eating a half-gallon of 1/2 calorie ice-cream. You need to get up and move around.
Leave my food alone.
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 Jul 5 2007, 3:35 pm (Edited on Jul 5 2007, 6:51 pm)
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Jul 5 2007, 6:57 pm
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Diet food works, with exercise, unfortunately people assume just eating slightly healthier will make them shed pounds. I'll agree with you on one thing, Diet Coke/Pepsi is really the only diet substitute that I will use. I love diet coke, drink it every day.
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The last line was great, although I often use some of the food substitutes(Ensure for example) after I run to regain calories. You hit the nail on the hammer as far as the articles concerned, chubby wants to lose a lot of wait without the work, so they convince themselves a cheap diet is the answer. And you know that the companies that make the garbage(which is what it is) aren't going to say anything, because the more people with this ill conceived notion there are, the more dough they rake in. My mom eats some of the frozen meals if she doesn't like what I cooked, but she at least works out in the morning. I mean, they will work, but they don't if you have your diet coke with a nice slice of cheesecake.
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while most of your generic frozen meal and low calorie yogurt bullshit diets don't work, there are eating diets that DO work, if you're willing to fork over $100 for the self-test to help you plan your diet for the next, uh, 100-200 pounds. my dad and step-mom went on these, and while my dad exercised a bit, my stepmom didn't. both saw tremendous weight loss, my dad moreso. it consisted of eating a small meal every hour or two, to increase your metabolism.
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Tell them that you need actual food. You're still growing so you need a proper, balanced diet so you don't run health risks down the track. Meat, fruit, veg, dairy, grain all that jazz. Low fat milk is worthless to you if it doesn't contain enough of the good stuff your body needs.
The most critical mistake people make in a shopping center is that they'll go looking for what they want to eat then pick up the diet version instead and think they've the right choice. Diet foods don't work when they're not part of a balanced diet (even then most of the food marketed as 'diet' wouldn't be included in a healthy diet). A diet is a plan not a single meal. Flip the box over, there should be a table. It will be different in the US but it should be basically the same. It'll show you the nutritional content per 100g and per serving (as well as how many servings are in the box). You look at this and decide where in your diet it fits. If it doesn't fit you have two choices. Either make changes to your other meals so it will fit or find something else that does fit. So when you're eating lunch you know that your breakfast and dinner will complement it perfectly to meet all your daily nutritional needs without having anything in excess. The beauty of it is that provided you work the numbers right you don't have to completely eliminate the foods you like. If you want a slice of cake every Friday to reward yourself you can plan Friday's meals out to balance that in. The fat wont fall off over night but as long as you keep it up it wont come back. | |
My health teacher explained that unless you thoroughly plan out each day's meal in advance and have someone basically spend their time just focusing on collection and preparation of said foods, its nigh impossible to get 100% of all the daily nutrients that you need daily. Make sure you eat a daily vitamin so that you do get those necessary nutrients, be it whether you're eating a balanced diet or not.
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CyberHound wrote:
its nigh impossible to get 100% of all the daily nutrients that you need daily. That part is easy it's the excess that gets you. It's pretty much impossible to get everything you need in the exact right dose. That's why exercise is so important. Your body can deal with most of the excess itself, but your body doesn't see things like extra energy as a bad thing (it doesn't understand that while a little fat is healthy most people don't want it or even need it). It's why a lot of people use things like protein supplements. Meeting your daily protein needs when you're working out to gain mass is very hard because most foods that offer plenty of protein also bring with them too many carbohydrates. My health teacher explained that unless you thoroughly plan out each day's meal in advance and have someone basically spend their time just focusing on collection and preparation of said foods Yes and no. Putting aside ten minutes a day to think about your meals is all it takes to do well enough. It sounds like a large chunk of time but really you can do it during the commercial breaks. Watching what you're eating and looking it over once a week also helps address any problems (ie, you notice you're not getting enough calcium so next week you add more). It's not the easiest thing you'll ever do but it gets easy fast. | |
DarkView wrote:
CyberHound wrote: He was talking about like 20+ nutrients (There were several vitamin B's) and such when he was referring to how it was nigh impossible to cover all the bases so to just take a vitamin pill to cover them all while still eating as healthily as you could. | |