So confusing to be pulled in so many different directions!!! - Diets and exercises for body shapes, blood types
Does anyone feel the same way about this different diets for different body types, blood types etc...? Today I came across this_page and given my body shape which is hourglass, its recommendation goes against most things I eat now, like while wheat. Where will I get the fibre that I need? Other pages with blood type dieting also say different things. And then the exercise. Currently, I don't jog but should I decide to, it says to stay away from it.
My question is: How much attention should one pay to all this information out there?
I count calories and eat according to the food pyramid. I also only choose foods free from High Fructose Corn Syrup and I try very hard to eat as natural as possible.
I think back to basics works best for me!
Body type, blood type, low fat, low carb... all of these diets are fad diets. The simple answer is:
Don't pay ANY attention to those diets unless the person advocating them has a RD, LD, or DTR after their name. An MD can be reliable... but they may also be advocating a fad diet, so take the info with a grain of salt.
Cutting out foods you love for no medical reason can make weight loss much more difficult. If you are going to cut out foods, make sure that you have a solid reasoning behind it. Otherwise.... stick to the info you see on this site!
Rule of thumb: Anything that's listed in the form of "The _________ Diet", is most likely a fad - notice that almost all of them have something to sell, like a book or a "system".
Stick to the basics: Burn more calories than you take in. Drink water, get fiber, eat lots of vegetables, balance your diet.
Original Post by _theresa:
Personally, if I cut one type of food out of my diet I end up craving it and I am not into depriving myself... it just eventually makes me binge.
I count calories and eat according to the food pyramid. I also only choose foods free from High Fructose Corn Syrup and I try very hard to eat as natural as possible.
I think back to basics works best for me!
That is exactly what I was going to say and that is exactly what I am doing~!
Original Post by shimmercat:
Body type, blood type, low fat, low carb... all of these diets are fad diets. The simple answer is:
Don't pay ANY attention to those diets unless the person advocating them has a RD, LD, or DTR after their name. An MD can be reliable... but they may also be advocating a fad diet, so take the info with a grain of salt.
Cutting out foods you love for no medical reason can make weight loss much more difficult. If you are going to cut out foods, make sure that you have a solid reasoning behind it. Otherwise.... stick to the info you see on this site!
I totally agree with this info! My EX doctor, was an Internist with Board Certifications in Internal Medicine, Oncology & Hematology. I felt very safe going to him until one day when I showed up for an appointment. There was a sign on the window that said "Medical Weight Loss Clinic"...I assumed my doctor had maybe moved to another office suite in the building...when I checked the directory it still showed him in the same office. I went back and was horrifed to discover that he was now using the office to see his regular patients and to also push diet pills and "weight loss" injections to all his "new clients". So, he was totally just doing this for extra income. I switched doctors and I am glad I did.
You just need to eat a healthy diet and to burn up more calories than you take in and you will lose weight. Its not a super quick way to lose, but its the best way and it will stay off then. Find the way of eating that you can make your way of eating for the rest of your life. Don't look for a "diet". Find something you can live with and stick to it...it then just becomes habit. Don't deprive yourself!
Original Post by gi-jane:
The best advice on how to eat healthily that I read recently was this....."Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" There's not a lot more to it than that.
From eat to live right? I've read that line too and it's pretty much spot on.
Actually, it's from Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, which is really good (as is his Omnivore's Dilemma).
Original Post by jenniechris:
Actually, it's from Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, which is really good (as is his Omnivore's Dilemma).
I haven't read that yet, so that must have been something that someone I know quoted from it. I knew I'd heart it somewhere though. Both of those books are on my (long and getting longer) reading list.
Don't pay attention to all those diets.. they all basically say (but in such a hidden meaning that no one gets it) that ultimately:
if what you eat = what you burn --> you stay the same weight
if what you eat is more than what you burn --> you gain weight
if what you eat is less than what you burn --> you lose weight
just watch what you eat and do exercise (no form of exercise is bad for you) and you'll be fine!
- Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't easily recognise as being food. Example, a yoghurt that you squirt out of a tube.
- Don't eat anything with more than 6 ingredients. (This makes it a 'food like substance' rather than a food.)
- Sit down at a table to eat. NB a desk is not a table and neither is a car
- Don't eat foods with ingredients you can't pronounce
Original Post by gi-jane:
- Don't eat anything with more than 6 ingredients. (This makes it a 'food like substance' rather than a food.)
That is interesting! Would you care to explain that a little further? Does it involve chocolate?
Last night - at around 10pm) I had this bar of chocolate that has been sitting on my desk for months because I am not sure if it expires in April or June (I didn't want to throw it away-throwing away food has a VERY BAD haunting psychological effect on me). The scale went up like 3 pounds but I am not bothered by that, am sure I will stabilise in about a week. But I had a bad night and all day I have a nauseous feeling especially when I see anything sweet, even fruits. I don't have a sweet tooth, I gave up taking sugar in my beverages like 2 years ago and of recent, I have realised, I can't stand the sight and taste of juice, especially that which is sweetened. Should I be happy about this? And when you talk about those more than 6 ingredients, I start to wonder...
Original Post by gi-jane:
The best advice on how to eat healthily that I read recently was this....."Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants"
I read that in a NYT article by Pollan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28 nutritionism.t.html?scp=7&sq=pollan&s t=nyt
A very good read, BTW.
He's suggesting we'd be a lot healthier & slimmer in the West if we made real cakes and ate fewer of them rather than thinking something that looks like a cake in a packet with 'low fat' splashed on the front was going to be the answer to our weight worries :-)
Your chocolate was probably a bit too much sugar and fat in one hit for your poor digestion! If you don't eat sugar on a regular basis (and I'm similar) then your tastebuds revert to their natural state which is 'sugar intolerant'. So sweet foods taste unpleasantly sweet. If you eat a lot of sugar your tastebuds become 'sugar tolerant' i.e you need to have a lot of sugar in something before it registers. I have never found not liking sweet foods a handicap personally :-)
That definitely puts things in perspective... Thanks!
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