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What to call a diet that is just based on reduced calories?

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  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    I just say I count calories. Then if it goes more in depth, talk about flexible dieting.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I just say I count calories. Then if it goes more in depth, talk about flexible dieting.
    But do you go into a single bicep pose as you say the flex in flexible? That's the emphasis.
  • JShailen
    JShailen Posts: 184 Member
    lisawinning4losing wrote: »
    CCSAD. Calorie Controlled SAD.

    I like it. :)

    Not everyone counting calories is living in or even from the US. Also, not everyone in the US eats the SAD. I know my family don't. I never really did and I certainly don't now that I live on the other side of the atlantic. I don't understand the negativity some people have towards calorie counting.

    I personally just say I count calories, or follow the ''eat less, move more''. People close to me know more of the details. I really don't think these things need labels. When more clarification is needed all you have to do is ask...which is exactly what the OP is doing ;)
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    lisawinning4losing wrote: »
    CCSAD. Calorie Controlled SAD.

    I like it. :)

    Since there really isn't a standard definition of what SAD represents, I don't see how this would be a helpful name... especially for those in other parts of the world who are just eating the foods they normally eat at a modest deficit...
  • Poweredbycoffee06
    Poweredbycoffee06 Posts: 39 Member
    lisawinning4losing wrote: »
    CCSAD. Calorie Controlled SAD.

    I like it. :)

    Why do you assume that anyone who doesn't feel the need to label their diet is eating the SAD? Does it make you feel better?
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    lisawinning4losing wrote: »
    CCSAD. Calorie Controlled SAD.

    I like it. :)

    Since there really isn't a standard definition of what SAD represents, I don't see how this would be a helpful name... especially for those in other parts of the world who are just eating the foods they normally eat at a modest deficit...

    I feel like CCSAD should be what happens when you go to a kids' play center and the robotic mouse has stopped working.
  • DorkothyParker
    DorkothyParker Posts: 618 Member
    I think what I am getting is that this "Eat less, move more" diet can be seen as a way of eating?
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    State of Usually Preferring Exothermic Reactions -
    Are you dieting? Yes I'm SUPER thanks for asking
  • Kimberly_Harper
    Kimberly_Harper Posts: 409 Member
    senecarr wrote: »
    State of Usually Preferring Exothermic Reactions -
    Are you dieting? Yes I'm SUPER thanks for asking

    Okay how do we make that a thing? #SUPER ?
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    I'm just a NARCICOist - No Acronym, Really, Calories In, Calories Out

  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    LOL
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
    I'm just a NARCICOist - No Acronym, Really, Calories In, Calories Out

    I still like cicophant, no acronym, just pun.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    When someone asks how I did it I say "Nothing special, I ate what I've always eaten only less". Then I wink and add "I will probably always have to watch what I eat because food tastes so good."
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Calorie Restriction?

    "Counting" isn't adequate as you could count 1200 or 4200 cals.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    Calorie Restriction?

    "Counting" isn't adequate as you could count 1200 or 4200 cals.

    All diets work by restricting calories. And the computer does the counting. I vote for calorie control.
  • Panda_brat
    Panda_brat Posts: 291 Member
    Call it eating normally
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    yarwell wrote: »
    Calorie Restriction?

    "Counting" isn't adequate as you could count 1200 or 4200 cals.

    All diets work by restricting calories. And the computer does the counting. I vote for calorie control.

    Control does not imply restriction. You can have controlled overfeeding or a hypocaloric diet that is tightly controlled.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    yarwell wrote: »
    Calorie Restriction?

    "Counting" isn't adequate as you could count 1200 or 4200 cals.

    All diets work by restricting calories. And the computer does the counting. I vote for calorie control.

    Control does not imply restriction. You can have controlled overfeeding or a hypocaloric diet that is tightly controlled.

    That is true. And you can restrict without depriving yourself.

    This ain't easy :/
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    it is called eating less..

    end thread/
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    Just saw an amusing name for counting calories: "arithmetic dieting"

    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9553012&fileId=S1368980014002559
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    LOL I like it. Interesting abstract too.
  • mommarnurse
    mommarnurse Posts: 515 Member
    I hate that there are so many "diets" with "names". When your diet causes you to lose weight, no matter what you call it, it's because of a calorie deficit. So I just call it all a calorie deficit.
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  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Oh, that seems to be the point even without a name, or what's all this about the "SAD Diet" and the like.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    If I'm eating less than my maintenance calories, then I'm on a "diet".
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Yep. I don't mind the term diet.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Yep. I don't mind the term diet.

    problem is it just means "what you eat".
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Yep. I don't mind the term diet.

    problem is it just means "what you eat".

    That's a usage issue. Diet has multiple usages which can be understood from context. I don't mind the term diet either.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Yep. I don't mind the term diet.

    problem is it just means "what you eat".

    I don't mind the verb form of diet either - "I'm on a diet".

    Doesn't have negative connotations to me.
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    CARPE DIEM

    Calorie Assumption Regarding Protein & Energie Diet Including Exercise Metabolism

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