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09-23-2006, 05:22 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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Truth in dieting
 I've decided to try to be strictly honest with myself about this whole problem.
In the past ten years I've gained and lost the same 50-60 pounds over and over.
I'm a good dieter! I really am. As I sit here now it has been one year and 9 months since I've eaten any food containing sugar, corn syrup or honey -no sweets, not even catsup. It has been equally as long since I've missed a work-out. My New Year resolution 2005 was to give up sweets and exercise every day but Sunday and I've stuck faithfully to the plan. The first year I lost about a pound a week, going from 205 to 145 by Jan 2006. Then I started to gain it back and I now weigh 160. Now gaining weight back after a diet is nothing new for me but this is the first time it happened while I was still on the diet!
This discouraging event has caused me to start researching the entire diet story. Googling on "diet myths" has uncoverd some very interesting information. There's this http://www.obesitymyth.com/excerpt.html interesting information about how little evidence there actually is to support the claims that our health is in peril if we are over weight. There is another new book by a psychiatrist called, Beyond the Shadow of a Diet which talks about how we've all been taught to become compulsive eaters through dieting. This writer says that many of the nutritionists and dieticians at health conferences are themselves, anorexic. No one seems to have a normal, healthy attitude to food anymore.
I don't want to be too long on my first post, but I am going to try to stay with this journal as I collect honest, factual information. I haven't given up on trying to control my weight but I refuse to continue to lose what I know will just come right back. There is a lot of evidence that yo-yo dieting and not excess weight is what contributes to heart disease.
Last edited by Adele : 09-27-2006 at 01:11 PM.
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09-24-2006, 07:06 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Aspertame, Splenda, Nutrasweet. I've decided to try to give them up. I gave up the real sugars, honey, corn syrup, etc. a few years ago but I've allowed myself plenty of Diet Pepsi. A few months ago I discovered sugar free ice cream and pudding and I've gone overboard with it. It seems to have the same trigger effect of real sugar, causing me to eat far too much; entire batches of pudding, a fourth of a half-gallon container of ice-cream at one sitting. The worst part is that I just know it can't be healthy. Some studies have indicated that it might cause liver and kidney damage and really, how could it not? It's almost entirely fake substance that our bodies can't recognize nad so it has to be flushed out.
I'm vowing right here not to buy anymore sugar-free ice cream, pudding, candy, pie or cookies.
The soda I will try to cut back on.
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09-24-2006, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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From Elisabeth Olinshaw, medical journalist, Netdoctor. Co. UK.
Diet Myth 1
Food eaten late at night is more fattening.
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Many diets tell you not to eat after a certain time in the evening in the belief that the body will store more fat because it is not burned off with any activity. However, a study at the Dunn Nutrition Centre in Cambridge suggests otherwise. Volunteers were placed in a whole body calorimeter (which measures calories burned and stored) and were fed with a large lunch and small evening meal for one test period, then a small lunch and large evening meal during a second test period. The results revealed the large meal eaten late at night did not make the body store more fat – it's the total amount eaten in a 24-hour period that's important. Lyndel Costain says, 'It is true that people who skip meals during the day, then eat loads in the evening are more likely to be overweight than those who eat regularly throughout the day. This may be because eating regular meals helps people regulate their appetite and overall food intake.'
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Last edited by Adele : 09-25-2006 at 08:09 AM.
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09-25-2006, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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From Allie Gottlieb, writer metroactive.com
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Relaxing and enjoying food that tastes good, unlike moderation or deprivation, is intuitive. Conversely, imposing limits on consumption takes effort. Effort sends hurtful messages to the brain. Hurting feels bad and should be avoided. This evasion solution requires intercepting messages sent to the brain. The best way to do that is to join a brainwashing cult. That's why I joined Weight Watchers
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This article is hilarious. Ms Gottlieb goes on to tell us her WW experience. She isn't entirely hard on it and says she enjoys her weekly meetings where she is treated like an infant and given "bravo" stars for saying things like, "I gained weight this week but I'm here anyway."
She does make some serious points as to the fact that the weight loss experts teach us the same traits that are used to diagnose anorexics; obsessive interest in the amount of calories in each food, slow and focused mealtimes, purposeful exercise, etc.
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09-25-2006, 04:39 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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There's a story in the news today that tells us that merely walking isn't enough to achieve "fitness".
Are these the same medical researchers who used to tell us that all we needed to lose weight and become fit was 20 minutes per day of brisk walking? I remember when the time was raised to 30 minutes and then "60 minutes if you want to lose weight." I'm so tired of getting conflicting information from the medical establishment.
I'm still going to do my Leslie Sansone 3 mile tape. Next year it might just be the cure for cancer.
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09-25-2006, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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What is "normal" eating?
From www.beyondashadowofadiet.com
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"...a healthy relationship with food means eating in response to physical hunger most of the time. However, normal eating can also include experiences such as eating occasionally because something looks good, eating past fullness at a special meal, eating in response to an emotion once in a while or choosing foods based on nutritional content because this feels care taking. Attuned eating means that eating for satisfaction is predominant, and experiencing deprivation is virtually non-existent. Attuned eating is a natural skill. It can be relearned by people who have lost touch with their hunger and can be reinforced and nurtured in children so that they maintain this healthy relationship with food throughout their lives."
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09-25-2006, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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Glen A. Gaesser MD
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The "extreme" weight cyclers had a heart disease risk 45 percent higher than that of noncyclers.
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This is the worst bit of information I found during my internet search for diet truth. Women who gain and lose an amount of ten pounds on three different occasions are considered yo-yo dieters. If the amount is 50 lbs or more on three or more occasions then you would be classed as an extreme weight cycler.
That would be me.
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09-25-2006, 07:29 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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What to do.
I think I've found enough information to get started on a plan. I know I don't want to go on another dangerous, doomed to failure diet. I know I don't want to regain anymore of the weight I lost last year. I know I do not wish to eat any fake foods like non-dairy creamer or sugar free ice-cream. Those are the things I won't do.I will walk six days a week. I will try to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. I will try to quit eating when I feel full.
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09-27-2006, 01:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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Craving my fake sweets already.
So, I'm eating an apple. Gala.
I went to Arby's for lunch and had a ham and swiss, fries and diet soda. Could have been worse -- I almost went to the Hong Kong Buffet.
Baby steps, baby steps.
Last night I watched Good Night and Good Luck . Very good. I rented it because it had Patricia Clarkson in it and learned something by accident. 
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His eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches me.
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09-28-2006, 06:41 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: West Virginia
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This will be a hard day. It's my day off and I'm used to doing a little secret binging on Thursdays.
Sugar-free pudding is already calling to me and it's only 7:40 A. M. I'll go thaw some chicken for a healthy dinner.
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His eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches me.
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