Proclamation

Cedarwren

I have lost significant amounts of weight three times in the past, twice doing Weight Watchers and once counting calories. So I think it’s pretty much true that if you pick a (reasonable) plan and follow it, you will lose weight.

But since I fell off WW a year and a half ago, I have been letting myself be plagued by all the conflicting nutritional information in the news.

In some corners they say, don’t eat dairy, it’s not needed and not good for you. Elsewhere you’ll read that soy is a problem for some hormonal reason. And even whole grains are suspect in some circles. Same with fruit. Artificial sweetener is full of risk. And of course the biggest and baddest thing of all is starches.

The result is that no matter how I choose to eat, I have the niggling fear that I am doing something “wrong”. Popcorn satisfies me as a snack, but in the back of my mind I wonder if the carb shouldn’t really be a no-no. Yogurt is a way for me to get protein and calcium, and is a filling snack, but I worry that maybe the dairy nay-sayers are right. I’ve come to love my egg/sausage/cheese breakfast, but is that too much protein and fat? I have animal protein every day, isn’t that breaking a rule that says plant-based is better?

I am proclaiming now that I am going to STOP letting the news reports bother me. I know from my weight loss successes, that I have lost even when eating all the foods on the no-no list. So THAT’S what I should be using as my guide, not some news article. I’ll bet if I read some of the successful food diaries on MFP I will find them full of the above-mentioned forbidden foods.

I am going to eat what *I* consider healthy, count the calories, and lose the weight. That’s all.