Is Anyone Else Trying the "Hungry Girl Diet" ?

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While I will admit that I have her books and have watched her show on Cooking Channel, I wouldn't follow her "diet". She relies on sugar-free; fat-free; and basically chemical laden products. The last time I watched her, she was making some type of chocolate mug cake and that's when I realized - everything that went into that "cake" was nothing but chemicals.

I don't have any issues with her recipes. Some of them are actually pretty darn good, especially her Parm Tilapia.

But...the issue I do have with her is that she likes to demonize foods and basically preaches only eating fat free food...which is silly because your body needs fat in your diet, and many nutrients need fat to bind to in order for your body to be able to use them.

But...if her diet plan works for people then whatever floats their boat...as long as they are staying healthy.

thank you for that..based on what was said i thought i was doing something wrong or dangerous..it's a bit hard to know what is okay and what is not when there are so many people here with differing opinions..

I love trying out different types of recipes. Some years back, the McDougall Diet was all the rage, which is low fat and vegetarian. I tried it for awhile, found out I was not able to eat however much I wanted and still lose weight, but to this day I love some of the recipes, even though I'm not vegetarian and can't eat soy products.

Ok, for the doubters: she calls herself Hungry Girl because traditional "diets" left her hungry, so she started making lower cal recipes of her favorite foods that still fill her up. It's not because you are hungry on it

Doubters?

The point is that NO "diet " s necessary to lose weight. Eat what you normally eat just less of it so that you are burning more than you eat.

AKA a diet.

I think you are missing my point. To me, a "diet" in the way I use it above is food restriction as to the TYPE of foods eaten, and it's my understanding of her "diet" is low sugar and low fat. You don't have to restrict TYPE of foods to lose weight or to maintain, you just eat less of it/

We are all on a diet in the general sense of diet being the foods we choose toeat.

and we are on a diet whether we follow the advice of someone else in terms of how to reduce calories or we decide how ourselves.

We are on a diet whether we restrict calories or not according to the definition of diet.

we sure are.

You use the word diet as you like, but as I have stated, to many others and myself it means something else. So that's all really there is to it.....

I'm not arguing that point in the slightest. I am merely reminding folks that whether you're doing "IIFYM" or the Dash Diet or anything else: if you're consciously limiting something, be it calories, fat, carbs, or whatever, with the goal of losing weight, you're on a diet. Count calories or count carbs or whatever. It's a diet.

My question why you need to "remind folks" of anything at all?

quite simply because the post I was replying to seemed to suggest (as often happens here) that calorie counting (and weighing, measuring etc.) isn't a diet.

Oh brother, so black and white. People in general restrict calories if they don't want to gain weight, even if it's unconscious. Think of the people who don't gain weight, or those who want to lose a few pounds, and they don't count calorie just cut back a bit. They don't have magic bodies, they simply intuitively know how much they can eat to maintain or lose those few pounds.

Losing weight and keeping it off is much more than counting calories, etc and throwing out dictionary definitions, it's a mindset and changing your relationship with food. Losing weight is NOT grabbing the next fad that comes along for the quick fix. I realize this is not true for everyone, but it it for me.

it's a diet. New or old. Whys that a bad thing?

Sabine,

No good or bad is involved here, and neither is there any right or wrong. Not everybody sees things the way that you do, and that's okay. I don't profess my perception of what a diet is or is not is right or wrong, just that it is what works for me.

Actually, I refer you to your first post "The point is that NO "diet " s necessary to lose weight. Eat what you normally eat just less of it so that you are burning more than you eat. " Perhaps a formal diet (as opposed to a diet you create) *may* be necessary for some and IS useful to some. cheers and best of luck with YOUR personal journey.

Ok, for the doubters: she calls herself Hungry Girl because traditional "diets" left her hungry, so she started making lower cal recipes of her favorite foods that still fill her up. It's not because you are hungry on it

Doubters?

The point is that NO "diet " s necessary to lose weight. Eat what you normally eat just less of it so that you are burning more than you eat.

AKA a diet.

I think you are missing my point. To me, a "diet" in the way I use it above is food restriction as to the TYPE of foods eaten, and it's my understanding of her "diet" is low sugar and low fat. You don't have to restrict TYPE of foods to lose weight or to maintain, you just eat less of it/

We are all on a diet in the general sense of diet being the foods we choose toeat.

and we are on a diet whether we follow the advice of someone else in terms of how to reduce calories or we decide how ourselves.

We are on a diet whether we restrict calories or not according to the definition of diet.

we sure are.

You use the word diet as you like, but as I have stated, to many others and myself it means something else. So that's all really there is to it.....

I'm not arguing that point in the slightest. I am merely reminding folks that whether you're doing "IIFYM" or the Dash Diet or anything else: if you're consciously limiting something, be it calories, fat, carbs, or whatever, with the goal of losing weight, you're on a diet. Count calories or count carbs or whatever. It's a diet.

My question why you need to "remind folks" of anything at all?

quite simply because the post I was replying to seemed to suggest (as often happens here) that calorie counting (and weighing, measuring etc.) isn't a diet.

Oh brother, so black and white. People in general restrict calories if they don't want to gain weight, even if it's unconscious. Think of the people who don't gain weight, or those who want to lose a few pounds, and they don't count calorie just cut back a bit. They don't have magic bodies, they simply intuitively know how much they can eat to maintain or lose those few pounds.

Losing weight and keeping it off is much more than counting calories, etc and throwing out dictionary definitions, it's a mindset and changing your relationship with food. Losing weight is NOT grabbing the next fad that comes along for the quick fix. I realize this is not true for everyone, but it it for me.

it's a diet. New or old. Whys that a bad thing?

Sabine,

No good or bad is involved here, and neither is there any right or wrong. Not everybody sees things the way that you do, and that's okay. I don't profess my perception of what a diet is or is not is right or wrong, just that it is what works for me.

Actually, I refer you to your first post "The point is that NO "diet " s necessary to lose weight. Eat what you normally eat just less of it so that you are burning more than you eat. " Perhaps a formal diet (as opposed to a diet you create) *may* be necessary for some and IS useful to some. cheers and best of luck with YOUR personal journey.

Wow, how nasty and condescending are YOU !! It seems to me that you're just looking for an argument here. Did you not get enough attention as a child or something ?!

Any diet with the word "hungry" in it is not for me. No thanks.

While I will admit that I have her books and have watched her show on Cooking Channel, I wouldn't follow her "diet". She relies on sugar-free; fat-free; and basically chemical laden products. The last time I watched her, she was making some type of chocolate mug cake and that's when I realized - everything that went into that "cake" was nothing but chemicals.