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Post by Joxcee on Oct 27, 2009 18:59:27 GMT -5
I've wondered why dieting is still around. Dieting is a temporary thing. It's to get you from size a to size b ... and then the diet is over.
And then what? And then you have to find an eating method that helps you to maintain size b, or else you put all the pounds back on ... and then some.
So why bother with the diet at all? Instead of searching for methods to maintain a wanted weight _after_ a diet, why not find it before the diet? Why not use it in place of the diet? (Which is why diets should be yesterday's news. Over & done with. A thing of the past. Used only for small bursts of weight gain.)
You don't need a diet if you find a healthy eating method. And you maintain the normal calorie intake your body needs per day. If you do that, it becomes your diet ... and then it becomes the maintenance once you've gone from size a to size b.
I'm no expert, and I don't eat healthy, so what I think is not what I do. And my thinking could be off, due to lack of information.
Yeah, you can ignore this ramble. Or you can add your thoughts to the mix.
Prattle On!
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Post by Quettalee on Nov 4, 2009 10:59:08 GMT -5
I'll be back later... No time today...the work thingy...but you know I have plenty to say on the subject!  |
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Post by anitaz on Nov 4, 2009 11:38:43 GMT -5
Yes, I'll back later too, I have to think very well what I'm going to say, since I'm the one who's diet is probably the WORSE in the whole forum... So...  |
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Post by Joxcee on Nov 4, 2009 19:23:12 GMT -5
Ana, I learned in my late teens, early twenties that _I_ cannot diet. And I've not dieted since. Dad, being a man, and an ironworker, could eat tons of sweets and not gain weight. Mom kept all kinds of sweets in the house for him. When I wasn't on a diet, I could walk by the sweets and not have to have them. But the second I put myself on a diet, I had to have the sweets. And not just one, but two, no ... three ... another one won't hurt. And I'd tell myself: "I'll eat these today, and diet tomorrow." Every day I'd crave the sweets and eat way more than I should. I couldn't have them tomorrow, so I have to get my fill today.
The second I decided I was off the diet, I could walk by the sweets and not crave them. I could go for days and not eat even one of the sweets. Why? Because I _knew_ I could have them any time I wanted. And I didn't want them at the moment. Then when I'd start my diet again, and I knew I wouldn't be able to have the sweets, they became a drug to me and I had to have them, and I had to have _all_ of them.
And it finally occurred to me that dieting was never gonna work for me. Shoot, I've thrown away bags of chips and Doritos because they went stale before I got around to eating them all up. (Cakes, pies, etc. too.) Then one day, Dr. Phil had a weight loss program on his show, and he told one woman she had to give up her Doritos, (she'd eat a large bag a night), and he threw away jars of peanut butter in several of the contestants homes. Well, I craved Doritos & peanut butter after that. I'd even had a jar of peanut butter that had been in the cabinet for several years too. But I had it eaten up soon, and I went through jar after jar of PB, and bag after bag of Doritos. Finally, the craving subsided, and I got back to normal. I blame Dr. Phil, because he said they were no-nos, and that made me have to have them.
So, I can have anything I want. I just have to ask myself, do I want it, or will something else tide me over in the mean time. If I _have_ to have it, I eat it. And usually, by not denying myself something, I don't overindulge. This works for me, but it may not work for others. And I guess, that's why I don't like, or believe in dieting. In order to get myself to eat healthier, I'll have to find something that I like as much as, or more than, what I like to eat now.
So, I can eat anything I want. And as long as I can eat anything I want, I'm freed up to choose between one type of dish or another. And to get myself to choose healthy, it has to be just as good as the non-healthy. And slipping once in a while is okay, because if it weren't, then I'd be back on the same type craving thing that I did with dieting.
Right now, I'm _thinking_ about eating healthy. I haven't actually put it into practice yet. But at least I'm thinking about it. And maybe that's the start I need to actually doing something about it.  And I think, I might have done it sooner, if a lot of the healthy food up til now hadn't been so tasteless and bland. I think, healthy eating is starting to get more taste conscious. I'm starting to see more meals/recipes that seem like they might taste a whole lot better than they used to.
Anyway. I think these threads are my way of dipping my toe into the water, and I just might take a step or two into the pool at a later point in time. Or maybe not. 
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