SubscribeThe No-Fad Diet
The American Heart Association (AHA) has come out with it's own diet book - "No-Fad Diet: A Personal Plan for Healthy Weight Loss". This is the first time the AHA has published a complete diet book.
The book offers a number of approaches to weight loss - menu plans (1200, 1600, 2000 calorie options) or the "75 percent solution" where you eat 75% of what you normally eat. There is also the "switch-and-swap" approach:
The switch-and-swap offers lower calorie alternatives. For instance, instead of a cinnamon roll, eating a cinnamon-raisin English muffin with 2 teaspoons of light tub margarine cuts 312 calories, according to the book.
There is also guidance on choosing appropriate levels of exercise.
However I can't help thinking - no matter how many books out there that say "eat less" - it doesn't seem to be working.
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I think there are two basic reason perpetuated by dieting authorities that further contribute to the lack of success most people have when trying to lose weight.
The first is that the dieting gurus down play old fashion willpower. If you are going to be successful you will need willpower to resist the temptation to eat.
The second is that dieting gurus have convinced us that if we diet correctly we never have to feel hungry. This is another fallacy in my opinion. There is nothing wrong or dangerous about spending some time each and every day absolutely famished. In fact being hungry actually causes a natural release of human growth hormone that will biochemically regress your age and help you to lose fat.
ReplyExtagen: If you are famished during the day at any point while eating a maintenance amount of calories or on a mild diet (500 or less calorie deficit per day), you are doing something wrong. I've got news for you: normal weight people eating healthy diets and snacks don't feel hungry.
The problem is that people are addicted to overeating way beyond the point that their hunger is satiated, especially sweet stuff.
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