If I repost something, or draw attention to something, it is not personal. I am sure we are all wonderful people, but some of the crap we seem to be preaching is not realistic in the real world. The feeling that restricting something from your daily "diet" is not realistic is killing a lot of people via obesity. If you are allergic to lobster, and it causes you to go into anaphylactic shock, I am assuming you are intelligent enough to not eat lobster. If peanuts can kill your child, I assume that you are not giving peanut butter and jelly to your kid. If Cupcakes and fried food are killing you...ya feel me ? That is how I handle moderation, and it really works for me. For the semantic challenged, we are all on DIETS. Whether our daily diet has no rules, bound by no restrictions, or is severely limited for a reason, we are on a diet. If we are obese, we should restrict foods in our Diet. Not getting to eat a Twinkie is not a horror. Restrictions work, moderation is much harder.
If you choose to feel holy and comment on someone's blog that "I am not on a diet, but I will count points for the rest of my life", then please shut the fuck up about everything else in regards to a diet. Counting points, Weight Watchers, is a DIET. Jennifer Hudson looks great, and she is on a diet. Live with it, do not feel superior because you think that point counting is not calorie counting. For the record, save yourself the fees, go online and figure out how many points you are allowed at your size. Then divide the calories of your Bear Claw by 55, and that is close enough to the points ingested for that fried piece of sweet delicious death that you have to eat. It works for meat to you crazy low-carb nuts. Weight Watchers on low-carb is easy. Divide the calories in the morning’s pound of bacon by 55, and bam…Points for the morning. By the way it’s around 39 points per pound of bacon.
This comment on a post had me peeing in my pants...
Whenever I would go on a “diet” it would only last a few weeks and then I would want to binge because I restricted myself. Only when did I actually just make a lifestyle change and just start eating less calories and moving more did the weight start to come off and it felt a lot less stressful.
Huh, eating less calories and moving more is not a Diet ? Is that the same thoughts that a blow job or a hand job is not considered sex ? How about this gem..
Totally agree Kenlie, I am not on a diet either, I have changed my life and will be counting points for the rest of my life, because that is the method I have chosen. Everytime someone speaks about ww and they say things about food they or I cannot eat, I flat out tell them, that’s not true, you can eat whatever you want, you just have to decide if it’s worth the points. And that my friend, is what I am and will be doing forever….maybe that’s why it’s working for me this time, because I am not on a diet…I am living my life in a new healthier way, and I have accepted I will be measuring everything forever…………wish me luck!
Counting points is not a DIET ? Did you ever meet the parents whose kids are flying around your home, swinging from the rafters, kicking the furniture and talking to their imaginary friends, and have them explain it as the terrible 6's. Maybe there is something wrong with Timmy. There is more out there, but who has the time to point them all out.
I hate the word “diet”, too. I’ve said it many times to a certain someone and they STILL say it. Why don’t they understand that this isn’t a diet. Diets are temporary, this is forever! That certain someone, yeah she’s been yo-yo dieting her entire adult life. Again I say, diets are temporary and I’m not on one! Great weigh-in!
Great weigh in ? Does time count around here ? Diets are temporary ? The author is dieting since she was a toddler, that is for life. This is something new ? There are plenty of comments of support, and they are great as well. We should all get support, it is wonderful. Be nice to people, yeah, but support your online friends with the truth when it is right in front of you. Telling someone that moderation is ok is great. Telling someone that can only talk about it, while remaining morbidly obese for over three years on a blog is not friendly, it’s criminal. There are some more great lines bring thrown around as well...
I also decided to workout before attending my meeting, another thing that I have never been comfortable doing before stepping on the scale. And I was down 0.6 pounds.
My favorite thing is when a fat person, (I am fat) diets for a week at say 300 pounds and gets so excited about a loss of ounces. Can we please stop with the excitement when the results are mediocre. Praise 3 pounds or more when the person is averaging one. Pat the back of someone that consistently loses 2 pounds per week for a month, dropping 10 pounds. A quick piss and I lose .6 pounds. Where is the thrill in that ?
Maybe we should practice Moderation in the praise of the ordinary, rather than moderation in crap thrown down the pipes...
Sigh. Love it. Here's a great blog (from a fat acceptance blogger, but still) about the "success" of Weight Watchers. In my opinion, Weight Watchers can blah blah blah all they want about eating more fruits & vegs but what it comes down to ("You can still eat the foods you love!") is teaching people to skip breakfast so they can have three slices of pizza for lunch or skip dinner so they can have two desserts, when they should be teaching that foods like that are to be consumed rarely at best, not how to work them into your everyday routine.
ReplyDeleteSorry: I did not think before pressing "send" and forgot the link to the blog...this writer nails it
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I think Weight Watchers can be a good tool (shoot, I was on it), but what people need to remember is that the diet industry is just that: an industry. Their job is not to make you healthy, it's to make themselves money. And how do we make money? We keep people coming back for our product. "Lose weight on Insert Diet Here! And then when you gain it all back and then some, we have New and Improved Insert Diet Here!"
ReplyDeleteMichael Pollan said it best. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," along with, "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
Somehow I don't think my great grandmother would recognize a Weight Watchers carrot cake-ish thingie if it bit her.
everyone is eating a diet..it just means what you are eating. We can move around terms..we can count calories...it all...ALL boils down to eat less move more. what you eat less of....well..that's up to you.
ReplyDeleteI love your honesty!! Makes one think about their own authenticity. (I think that is the first time I have ever used that word in a sentence lol lol).
ReplyDeleteI used to love the old points system, which made calorie counting just a bit easier/more manageable for memory. Easier to track 36 than 1800, say. :D And once you memorize the routine foods, it's a snap. But you're right. I don't know about Points Plus, but old Points was just divide by 50, unless it was a very high fiber and very low fat food, which would be a bit less (more points leeway). But divide by 50 pretty much solved it. Or, to know how many actual calories, multiply by 50...36 points x 50 would be roughly 1800 calories for that day. I told folks all the time. It was not big mystery. Just multiply by 50 and that was your points into calories. Or divide..voila. A 100 calorie food was about 2 points (like a slice of bread). If it was 50 calories, like a low fat cheese slice or a slice of lite bread, it was 1 point. No brainer. Just easier to count points (lower numbers), so the masses didn't freak out with MATH! ; )
ReplyDeleteThey are on some sort of diet. Anyone watching their intake is on some sort of diet. Anyone trying to gain or lose or improve cholesterol or diabetes or whatever with how they eat is on a diet of some sort. Counting points, counting carbs, counting fat, counting calories or protein or avoiding gluten or avoiding sugar...that's all some sort of DIET. Diet ain't a dirty word, but apparently, some folks thing they're above using it. ; )
Oh, and those WW foods are mostly crap. Seriously. When I was part of WW, I'd read those ingredients lists and they SCARED ME. OF course, some folks think cause it's WW it must be good and healthy. No, it's crap. It's just points controlled crap....and worth avoiding. Except for those so brainwashed by WW that they think the WW imprimatur is a thumbs up straight from God. Geez, just have a cup of fruit or a simple veggie soup salad and skip the packaged crap, people.
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ReplyDeleteI really believe that quote is true. It's the sensibility that seems to be missing from a lot of posts/comments. If you're thinking that eating a slice of pepperoni pizza is still ok when you haven't hit your goal weight (and not even close) then I think the mentality needed for sustainable weight loss has not yet been achieved.
It's a lifestyle change, but it's also a mentality change. Getting healthy is so much more about eating foods that are good for you versus eating a certain number of calories. I've always said, if you've got 300 calories to spare in your daily allowance, don't eat a Snickers bar, have a grilled piece of salmon ... it really will make a huge difference.
Twinkies are disgusting... YUCK! :(
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