What's the best diet?

Sangre Naranjada

Sangre Naranjada

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Americans spend billions on diet plans, fads like Adkins and South Beach diets make their originator rich as people rush to buy the books, yet we keep inching towards being a nation of Fat ********. Since the idea of dieting to lose weight has always been on the American consciousness, and since there's no shortage of options to try, what's the best one?

Oh my God! A new 2 year study out, to be printed in the New England Journal of Medicine, says it just doesn't matter.
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Good news.

I have been eating 27 grapefruits a day for the last three weeks and starting to think that a basketball covered with mustard sounds pretty good.
 
Eating carbs leads you to craving more carbs.

Eating fats makes you feel full.

So actually, "Fat-Free" items may initially sound great, but can lead you to eat more, which leads to:

MORE CALORIES IN, than eating items with fat.

Being "poor", but "eating healthy" is a great way to limit the number of calories you can afford to put in your body. Which in turn, helps keep the weight off.

Also, walking to work, taking the stairs, working out enough to at least break a sweat (20 to 30 minutes) 4 or 5 days a week are also nice ways to keep the weight off.

EATING your fruit and NOT DRINKING it helps.

...There are so many small changes that can be made, it is ridiculous when people are willing to totally change their life for a short amount of time and then expect long-term results.
 
It is actually hard to exercise enough to really burn off a lot of calories, although it can be done.
The way to lose weight, and this is a carefully guarded secret which I will reveal in my soon to be published best-seller, Dr. Accurate's Incredible Diet Plan, but am willing to share with my HornFans brethren, is this-eat smaller portions.
Eating healthy is really a different subject, although somewhat related.
 
It's about 50% diet and 50% exercise. Drop 500 calories from your daily intake, and exercise for an hour a day, and you'll get about a 1,000 calorie net loss per day. That's about 2 pounds per week. No starving, no weird rules; it's just portion control and movement.
 
I like Weight Watchers. Been on several cycles of diets. The wife and I have a collection of a couple of dozen low cal meal recipes that we really enjoy. I bring leftovers for lunch at work. It works out to 1300 cal or so a day of intake, very well balanced. I thrown in 4000 or so cal a week in exercise. This is around 2 pounds a week, now.

The thing is, you have to stick with discipline even after the weight goal is reached. Must weigh regularly, never get too far away from the "program", and revert to it if you move past a certain set point.

I haven't done the above, so have lost 35 lbs about 5 times. I seem more aware and committed to the long term now. We'll see.
 
I think clothes are an easy reminder of how you're doing.

If the pants are tight, you're getting too fat.

Pretty simple.
 
The report doesn't surprise me. Other than genetics preventing someone from changing their body type, as long as you exercise, it doesn't matter what you eat. There were a couple of people that lost weight from exercising on a Mcdonalds diet.
 
caloric deficit will make you lose weight, but both nutrition and exercise can play a role in your metabolism, which determines both how many calories you burn and indirectly your hormonal chemistry, which determines how the calories you consume are used.

I'm 6 feet tall. In 2001, when I was 27, I was 249 pounds and had a 40 inch waist. since then I've lost about 75 pounds of fat and gained 30 pounds of muscle. I eat considerably more now.

What's different?
I eat breakfast every day, first thing, without fail.
I try to eat healthy snacks between meals.
I work out about 4 days a week, doing intervals and some compound lifts like squats and deadlifts and pushups and pullups. I also jump rope and do some boxing training.
 
it is really simple, calories in, calories out.

I find the key to success is 80% diet and 20% exercise. I can lose weight without exercising if i watch what i eat. I cannot lose weight by exercising a ton and eating crap.

I find the calorie calculators very useful:

1. you enter your weight and age
2. you enter your activity level
3. you enter how many pounds you want to lose a week, say 2 lbs.

4. and BINGO! it calculates the amount of calories you can consume a day and still lose 2 lbs. a week.

Pretty handy if you are looking to drop about 8 to 9 lbs. a month, which is a pretty reasonable and healthy weight loss.

The calculator doesn't factor in measurable exercise, but if you ran 4 miles a day or any measurable exercise, you obviously could calculate the calories burned and add the same number of calories back into what you eat that day (bonus!) and still stay on your weight loss pace and goal.
 
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